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

[Dan Rosenthal]

Names and titles do not create a community structure. Defining what a  
community is and building a true relationship between the community  
and the board, that creates a community structure. The name is  
completely irrelevant; even moreso when one of the criticisms of this  
VC is that it's just a bunch of people looking for titles, so lets  
create a position for them.

-Dan
On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:

> Yes, to finally create a community structure.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
> >
> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:41:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal  
> sent to the Board
>
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org 
>> >
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 7:02:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council -  
>> proposal sent to the Board
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> something more benign, like "volunteer committee", or "community
>> advisory board" or something.
>>
>> --Andrew Whitworth
>>
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