[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution
Bryan Tong Minh
bryan.tongminh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 19:51:28 UTC 2008
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?
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