[Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board

[Chad]

Does the name really matter?

You can call the staff Grand Pubahs and the board
the Great Potentates if you like, but it doesn't change
their role.

-Chad

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or the Working Group on Community Relations?
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>  From: Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
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>  Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 7:02:58 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > What if this Volunteer Council has no real offficial standing and solely regulates the Community? No tax problems, right?
>
>  This is more along the lines of what I've been thinking about. If the
>  VC is a community-based structure, and does not change the governance
>  structure of the foundation, it's a moot point entirely. Th VC
>  shouldn't change the structure of the foundation any more then the
>  chapcom or the languages subcommittee or any other advisory committee
>  do. If terminology is a problem, perhaps we should rename it to
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> something more benign, like "volunteer committee", or "community
>  advisory board" or something.
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>  --Andrew Whitworth
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