[Foundation-l] A proposal for organisation

[Jan Kulveit]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:54:15AM +0200, Anthere wrote:
...
> I have given a bit of thought in the issue during the past few days, in 
> reading all the emails on this list, and I had the opportunity today to 
> talk with one of the co-founder of the Apache Foundation, in particular 
> about the way their Foundation is organised. I put wikitech in copy, 
> because I am pretty sure some of the guys there know the organisation 
> and will be able to correct me if necessary.
> 
> I thought that his description of his Foundation... would very possibly 
> fit pretty well what it seems many on this list are looking for and 
> solve some of our current problems.
> 
...
> Each project has a governing committee in charge, on which there are at 
> leasts 2 ASF members, and which report to the board of the ASF.
> 
> Comments ?
> 

One dissimilarity - what are the "projects"? In the sense of ASF it
may be Wikipedia, Wikinews, Commons, etc.  Here the projects are 
language versions of "meta-projects". 
Commiters have common languages - code and English. Wikimedia 
projects do not. You can hardly effectively oversight a Wikimedia 
project if you dont understand the language. => question - if you take 
board members and their freinds, and maybe even theirs friends, does it 
cover the spectrum of Wikimedia languages? I would guess it doesn't.

Another dissimilarity is in the existence of local chapters. How do
they fit in the above scheme?

Anyway, it would solve some current problems, but not all. 

Jan Kulveit