[Foundation-l] Board restructuring and community

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Personally I think that 4 experts is a big number for the board.
>  Experts are consultants not board members!!!

The part that I think is most missing here is the role of the advisory
board, which already exists and is already populated by several people
who we could consider to be "Experts" in some fields.  This expertise
could easily be expanded to include people with business, accounting,
management, and other desirable skills.

Some of the recent emails by Angela have painted a slightly depressing
picture of the advisory board, and I'm not sure if such was
intentional or not. It would seem that no actual "advice" is being
solicited from them before the foundation board makes important
decisions. Rather then complete board restructuring to include more
experts, a path of far less resistance would seem to be to expand the
advisory board to include more necessary experts, and then better
integrating the advisory board into the foundation decision-making
process. On the advisory board you could have far more then 4
"experts", and more experts means more wisdom and a more diverse
skillset.

--Andrew Whitworth