On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > there have been several discussions over the years, and those which I > remember (the first one was Lodewijk's proposal in 2008? 2009?) were either > rejected/not endorsed by the board, or got stalled on meta with no > consensus. I remember some dating back to 2005. But it does not mean the situation has not matured since. > My impression is therefore that some sort of a preparatory work is needed > to avoid these two traps. Ideally, there would be a drafting group with a > broad representation (possibly the members of the group will be prohibited > to sit in the first edition of the elected body), and the Board will > preliminary express an interest (so that the group knows the chances are > not zero). Of course we can just agree on electing the representative body > witout actually asking the Board, but I am not sure this would be the right > way of doing it. > > Agreed. A mixed working group could be a way to go. dj _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
