On 23 October 2012 16:19, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
Advisory board? Why? Why not just put petrol on the flames?
A charity that is as small as Wikimedia U.K. has no need of more dimensions
of governance...
An advisory board is conventionally advisory, per the name: they're
On 23/10/12 16:26, David Gerard wrote:
On 23 October 2012 16:19, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
Advisory board? Why? Why not just put petrol on the flames?
A charity that is as small as Wikimedia U.K. has no need of more dimensions
of governance...
An advisory board is
What do you want to ask the charity commission? I think the guidance is
pretty clear. You just need to have it written down somewhere what their
role is and what authority they have (ie. none).
What is the difference between the CIC approach and our approach of having
members that hold the board
On 23/10/12 17:45, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What do you want to ask the charity commission? I think the guidance
is pretty clear. You just need to have it written down somewhere what
their role is and what authority they have (ie. none).
I would ask them, given the current age of the charity,
On Oct 23, 2012 10:23 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote:
On 23/10/12 17:45, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What do you want to ask the charity commission? I think the guidance is
pretty clear. You just need to have it written down somewhere what their
role is and what authority they have (ie.
On 23/10/12 22:31, Thomas Dalton wrote:
We could have quarterly general meetings if we wanted to. We don't
need to change legal structure for that.
But stakeholder groups in CICS can be a subset of the membership, I
believe. The CIC decides at the start how to run the stakeholder function.
On 21 October 2012 19:20, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk 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
On 21 Oct 2012, at 19:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 October 2012 19:20, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk 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,
On 21 October 2012 19:30, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com 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
