Sure. I am dashing to catch a flight to San Francisco, but one of us will reply to your other email on what will be presented at the board meeting 3-4 Feb.
Bye for now, Bishakha On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Alice Wiegand <[email protected]>wrote: > Bishakha, may I copy these two paragraphs to > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_roles/charter > respectively > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_roles/summary/models > where they could help to understand the board's questions on the > drafts and hopefully will lead to some discussion? > > > Regards, Alice. > > On 18 December 2011 07:22, Bishakha Datta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Board members asked some broader questions since there wasn't enough > time to > > go into the substance of it: > > How specific does a charter need to be in order to be useful? > > Is something that is very general useful enough? > > How can one strike a balance between stating general principles and > ensuring > > they are worded tightly enough to mean something substantial? > > How long should a charter be? While most trustees felt this should be > tight > > and concise, similar to what's being developed, a minority were in > favour of > > a much longer charter, upto 100 pages. > > How will entities in the movement signal their acceptance of the charter? > > No conclusions were reached on any of these - perhaps this is something > for > > the MR workgroup to consider. > > > > The proposed new models and the proposed affiliations committee were > > discussed together. There was general support for the idea of having new > > models. On the proposed models themselves, there were questions about the > > specific 'names': partner orgs, informal associations, affiliates - it > was > > suggested that the names be reviewed again for precision and to ensure > there > > is no confusion about the type of group. For example, 'cultural groups' > or > > 'cultural > > chapters'? > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles/summary/New_Models >
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