[Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

[Benjamin Lees]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please note the substantive change in Article V: Officers and Duties. As
> per the amendments, the Secretary and Treasurer are now non-trustee officer
> positions.
>

This doesn't seem too unreasonable in itself, but it is somewhat surprising
that you didn't readjust the board's composition accordingly.  The
justification for having unelected seats is to ensure that the board has
people with specific skills or backgrounds, and my impression was that
getting someone with accounting experience to serve as treasurer was part
of that.