Hi! Sorry for late answer - I visited the offline world (it had awesome mountains with snowcaps, sky-blue oceans and tulip fields ;-)
> So, the "community" is urged to do this work at the request of the > Board, > but the > Board itself is going to do virtually nothing (other than this > collection of > words > that urges the community to work harder) to strengthen the > commitment to > high-quality, accurate information. Do note, exercising any kind of authority over community is very strong step. Board does not rule the community, we work on facilitating the community. > How many Board members were in attendance in Berlin, and what was > the mean > travel distance of the Board attendees for this excursion? I have difficulty seeing why this question is important, but can sure answer it, just let me clarify a bit. excursion |ɪkˈskəːʃ(ə)n| |ɛk-|noun 1 a short journey or trip, esp. one engaged in as a leisure activity I really cannot classify any of board meetings as 'leisure' - they're usually quite intense days (don't forget the jetlag our global commitments bring in :) In this particular trip the agenda was combined with chapters meeting agenda, tech team meetings, also meeting local communities. I cannot call it leisure, it is way more intense than my day job (oh, and vacation time is used ;-) By using such words you seem to be antagonizing the organization and the work that is being done, and therefore either you're a troll, or you just genuinely do not understand the work everyone around is doing, and see just your own agenda. Anyway, back to the Berlin meeting. Average travel distance for board members was (pardon the metric) ~5000km (for three members it was below 1000km) - and whole board was attending the meeting. Sometimes meetings involve meeting quite some staff, as their feedback is extremely valuable in certain topics too, so usually meetings happen in SF. In this case, as I mentioned above, nearly (over?) 100 community members were met overall - so if we'd include that, the mean travel distance would be way way lower - and the value of the meeting was extremely high. I hope this satisfies your curiosity, and also I hope next time you'll be more polite and careful picking your words. Thanks! :) BR, -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
