[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

[Thomas Dalton]

>  While the a particular project (like English Wikinews) should be
>  represented according to the size of the community, languages should
>  be represented unproportionally, possibly one delegate per one
>  language with at least one active project.

That would certainly be nice. If you're going to have that many
languages represented, I think it becomes essential to have everyone
speak at least reasonable English - translating everything into lots
of languages will not be practical. (I say English, it could be any
language, but I think English is likely to have the most speakers.)

>  Of course, this approach leads to a very huge body (approx. 500-700
>  members), which is not possible now nor at the near future (near
>  future = a couple of years). So, as I said, I think that one of the
>  main responsibilities of the provisional body should be creating a
>  path from the size of 20-30 members to a fully representative body.

I'm not sure 500-700 is practical in the middle to far future either.
There would need to be an additional tier if we were going to get that
large - a council of 30-60 (say) and a general assembly of 500-700
which only meets (virtually) once of twice a year.