[Foundation-l] Advisory board update

[Angela]

> However, many people don't see what the Advisory Board does, and in
> fact, there have been serious questions about the utility of a Board
> that seems to do nothing (useful or otherwise). Can you let us know what
> activities the Advisory Board carries out, and give us some indication
> of how often they do it?

There's no simple answer to this since each person acts individually
rather than the board working as a group, except for occasions such as
the strategy planning type sessions as previous Wikimanias - the
outcomes of which are at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board. Examples
of the sorts of thing people do include being involved in the
committee for identifying potential candidates for appointment to the
board of trustees, advising Sue on different issues, looking into ways
of improving OTRS, or working with the FSF and Creative Commons on the
license change.

Angela