[Foundation-l] advisory board composition

[Angela]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like sometime this summer the composition of the Advisory
> Board changed, with several of the original members becoming former
> members:
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board&diff=39660&oldid=39327
>
> I don't remember an announcement about this. Did I miss it? Is this an
> annual sort of advisory board restructuring, or something else? Was it
> discussed somewhere? It's helpful to know who the advisory board
> members are, and I didn't think they had any specific 'terms of
> office' -- do they?

Originally people were asked to stay for terms of one year. That
lasted rather longer for some as the first expiries happened on June
30, 2009 based on decisions made at the April board of trustees
meeting.  <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/April_3-5,_2009#Advisory_Board_Update:>

Michael Snow sent a letter to all members thanking them for their
service, and then some were asked to extend their term on the advisory
board until December 31, 2010. The board of trustees will review the
list before 2011 and invite some to complete an additional term. Also,
others may be added to the list before that time. Sorry that there was
not more of an announcement about this. I should probably have made
one.

There have been two additions to the advisory board in the past year,
and there were press releases about these:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Roger_McNamee_to_Become_Wikimedia_Advisor_January_2009>
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Neeru_Khosla_to_Become_Wikimedia_Advisor_Dec_2008>

Angela