Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board (was: Latest WMUK blog post - message from our Board)

2012-10-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 October 2012 19:30, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I don't think the WMF's advisory board has been particularly > successful or effective, so I would advise against basing WMUK's on it > to too great an extent. > Sitting on the WMF's advisory board is more of a sinecure than > anything. If WMUK is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board (was: Latest WMUK blog post - message from our Board)

2012-10-21 Thread Michael Peel
On 21 Oct 2012, at 19:30, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 21 October 2012 19:20, Michael Peel wrote: >> I'd personally agree that an advisory board could be very beneficial for >> WMUK. I've set out a first draft of what such a board could look like, after >> looking into the WMF's advisory board set

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board (was: Latest WMUK blog post - message from our Board)

2012-10-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 21 October 2012 19:20, Michael Peel wrote: > I'd personally agree that an advisory board could be very beneficial for > WMUK. I've set out a first draft of what such a board could look like, after > looking into the WMF's advisory board setup and some other background > documents, at: > https:/

[Wikimediauk-l] Having an advisory board (was: Latest WMUK blog post - message from our Board)

2012-10-21 Thread Michael Peel
On 13 Oct 2012, at 20:52, Andrew Turvey wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Tom Holden > wrote: > Is there a role for an advisory board? It was discussed a while back. Perhaps > some of the long serving former board members could be invited to be on it > (Andrew T., Joe S., Tom D.)? >