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

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

I posted it earlier today on the Meta talk page, and I am not sure whether
we are discussing here or there, but anyway. I agree with those who think 
that more than a hundred is way too much. 500 representatives can may be
hold a meeting once per year (where not everybody even gets a chance to
speak - if it is a real time meeting), and may be they can vote for smth
if needed, but it is absolutely impossible that 500 people can discuss
smth and agree on smth. If we really want a body that can prepare some
decisions (not just vote them) and deal with some issues, several dozens
is an absolute maximum. I would even say less, 20-30, but it is hard for
me to understand how 20-30 people can even remotely represent the
community.

Cheers,
Yaroslav

>>  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.
>
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