[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Casey Brown]

For some background reference,
* original resolution creating the Advisory Board:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Advisory_board>
* current Advisory Board with biographies:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think part of the problem is that there were some odd ideas about
> how the Advisory Board would work. For example, it has a chair. I
> can't work out why. Why would the advisory board ever meet as a group?

Well, it actually has had two meetings:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board>

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> To summarise, my suggestion is to abolish all the expert seats on the
> WMF board of trustees

Going along with this, based on another thread about the Nomination
Committee, if this was done NOMCOM could instead be tasked with
looking to expand the Advisory Board with necessary characteristics.
(Basically the same goals/tasks, but directed in a different place.)

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023