On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:02 AM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a member of LangCom (just a volunteer list-admin), so I will not > offer an opinion on Jan's request to join. > > However, I *will* offer an opinion about the committee's governance: the > current structure still bears the signs of the committee's genesis, out of > ad-hoc need, in a very different time for the movement. Today, it behooves > this committee, like all WMF committees (and others across the movement), to > adopt some measures of good governance to ensure it remains fit-to-purpose > and active. > > The first such measure that comes to mind is agreeing upon participation > expectations (which should of course be appropriate for this particular > committee's tasks and the understandable delays they often carry, such as > waiting on external experts, etc.), and, after due notice, eventually > removing members who do not meet those expectations. This is a relatively > easy way to address the "membership for life" issue without setting actual > (renewable) membership terms. > > Another measure would be agreeing upon some desired size (or range) for > committee membership, and then upon some process and criteria for soliciting > and accepting new members. > > I am bringing this up as advice in my personal capacity as observer of this > committee, resting though it does on much observation and work with other > Wikimedia committees. My advice does not carry any coercive force, of > course; I just invite the committee to consider improving its governance > along these or similar lines.
Agreed. I would put on hold any new membership requests before the solution of the issues Asaf listed. I would also say that we should solve these issues as soon as possible; i.e. to put this thread as priority for our present work. _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
