Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-13 Thread Gordon Joly
At 23:20 + 10/2/09, David Gerard wrote: >2009/2/10 AndrewRT : > >> Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep >> the current 5 or expand to 9? > > >Five to seven at a *maximum*. Parkinson wrote a good essay on this. > > >- d. Indeed. Gordo -- "Think Feynman"//

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/11 Thomas Dalton : > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126901.300-explaining-the-curse-of-work.html?full=true It's nice to note, that article links to Wikipedia! (The last sentence links to our article on the English Civil War.) Even New Scientist endorses us. ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/11 Casey Brown : > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Gray > wrote: >> 2009/2/10 David Gerard : >>> 2009/2/10 AndrewRT : >>> Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep the current 5 or expand to 9? >>> >>> Five to seven at a *maximum*. Parkinson w

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/2/10 David Gerard : >> 2009/2/10 AndrewRT : >> >>> Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep >>> the current 5 or expand to 9? >> >> Five to seven at a *maximum*. Parkinson wrote a good essay on this. > > ...wh

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/10 David Gerard : > 2009/2/10 AndrewRT : > >> Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep >> the current 5 or expand to 9? > > Five to seven at a *maximum*. Parkinson wrote a good essay on this. ...which was, for those interested, rediscussed in 'New Scientist' a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/10 AndrewRT : > Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep > the current 5 or expand to 9? Five to seven at a *maximum*. Parkinson wrote a good essay on this. - d. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikime

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread AndrewRT
On Feb 10, 8:47 pm, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > It's probably worth pointing out that at the moment less than 7 people > have expressed an interest in standing for the 7 seats on the board, I don't think we should assume that this will remain the case. Out of the five current Board members one has i

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread AndrewRT
On Feb 10, 10:38 pm, Gordon Joly wrote: > > Why are there seven seats on the board? I can see why there might be > seven roles, but why seven people? > > Gordo Just out of interest, which other number would you have prefered? Keep the current 5 or expand to 9? Andrew ___

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/10 Gordon Joly : > Why are there seven seats on the board? I can see why there might be > seven roles, but why seven people? Because we had a discussion (on meta, I think) and that's what we decided. We thought there was too much work for 5 people and 9 people seemed unwieldy and unnecessar

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Gordon Joly
At 20:47 + 10/2/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: >2009/2/10 Andrew Turvey : >> We would like to ask people their suggestions as to the best way forward. >> Should we restrict it to current Board members, or is it reasonable to say >> that anyone who puts themself forward as a candidate would be acce

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Chapters Meeting

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/10 Andrew Turvey : > We would like to ask people their suggestions as to the best way forward. > Should we restrict it to current Board members, or is it reasonable to say > that anyone who puts themself forward as a candidate would be acceptable to > go? It's probably worth pointing out th