Personally I think it's preferable to alter/simplify existing roles than further complicate an already complex organizational model by adding new roles into the mix.
For example: it is inordinately difficult to form a chapter. I would ask wow can make this easier, instead of inventing some new role to live alongside it. It takes *a lot* of time and energy to think up and put into place even one new volunteer role in a highly distributed organization like ours. I would say it takes less energy and is more rewarding to improve what we have. Just me two cents, Steven Walling On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Michael Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to the committee reorganizations I mentioned, which are sort > of "internal" to the board (that is, the purpose is to improve the > board's own functioning), something we are starting to work on is to > think systematically about different roles within Wikimedia as a > movement. These roles may be those of individuals as volunteers, or in > groups such as chapters; it may include roles that exist, or those we > determine are needed. Defining these better, so that they can be filled > more effectively, and so that people can be more effective in their > work, could help us build a stronger working community. > > Part of this is an outgrowth of the strategic planning project, where we > have a task force on movement roles, and I encourage people to do > further work on the strategy wiki in this area. I would suggest the > board believes this is also a larger ongoing question, one we will be > wrestling with even after the strategy plan is in some sense completed > later this year. We intend to keep this moving beyond that. Arne in > particular has taken a strong interest in this issue, and he and > Jan-Bart have been preparing some thoughts to share with the chapters > leading up to next week's chapters and board meeting. Coming out of > that, I hope we will start to develop a better sense of fundamentally > who we are and what kinds of relationships we should create to better > develop the Wikimedia projects. > > --Michael Snow > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
