On 2016-01-13 16:32, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is a good idea to have a sort of community council. To give credit, Guy Kawasaki just recently proposed something along these lines in internal discussions. My first take is that it would be good to have some representation and governance of our movement, not just WMF. It would make everyone's lives easier, too - it would be easier to consult, seek advise, etc.
I've been also thinking about revitalizing our Advisory Board - the way I would like to see it would be dividing it into (a) community (b) tech and (c) academic subgroups, available for immediate consulting and feedback.
This definitely does not collide with the idea of a community council in the form that you're proposing, I think. It is worth further discussion. Should it be continued on meta?
dj
Hi Dariusz,
there have been several discussions over the years, and those which I remember (the first one was Lodewijk's proposal in 2008? 2009?) were either rejected/not endorsed by the board, or got stalled on meta with no consensus. My impression is therefore that some sort of a preparatory work is needed to avoid these two traps. Ideally, there would be a drafting group with a broad representation (possibly the members of the group will be prohibited to sit in the first edition of the elected body), and the Board will preliminary express an interest (so that the group knows the chances are not zero). Of course we can just agree on electing the representative body witout actually asking the Board, but I am not sure this would be the right way of doing it.
Cheers Yaroslav