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

[Milos Rancic]

On 3/14/08, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> My concern with this is that the Foundation has a specific mission, and it
>  isn't to be an experiment in community building and governance. Is there a
>  direct connection between establishing councils, advisory groups, committees
>  etc. and improving the encyclopedia? Is the contention that the
>  "under-representation" of the community on the Board (which I don't agree is
>  actually the case) damages the Foundation's progress towards achieving its
>  overarching goals?

While I may give to you a number of connections because you asked a
very general question, I will say only that community's (or
communities') goals don't need to be the same as Foundation's goals.
While local chapters' goals have to be the same, community is not a
legal body. And if such thing is ignored, sooner or later community
will separate itself from the Foundation.