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

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  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.)
>
>
*cough* European Parliament *cough*

>  >  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.
>
>
Something like the UN where the security council is selected for a
certain period by the general assembly?