On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> (1) The most compelling arguments in favour of having appointees as >> voting board members (as opposed to having them as advisory board members), >> > > I'm not sure what you're asking. I think that both external experts and > the community-elected and chapter-appointed Board members should be voting > members, if they are to be on the board. If you're asking whether it is > useful to have external appointees on the Board at all, I think the answer > is quite obvious - we need the level of engagement and expertise, that will > not be available if we ask them to be on the advisory board, and I don't > think it is likely it would be if they were to no non-decisive board > members. Proportions between solely board-appointed and community-nominated > people is a different story. >
Thanks Dariusz. It's more or less what I was thinking too; a seat on an advisory board is perhaps not attractive enough to really care. > I am glad to hear you are working on a proposal to increase the number of >> community/chapter seats on the board (though I personally tend to think >> that at 2 vs. 3, the chapters are already slightly over-represented, >> compared to the general community). >> > >> > Sadly, humans count in full numbers only, so it could be either 1 or 2 in > the current system, and 1 is not that many neither :) > Well, you might add a community-selected board member. That would make 2 seats for the chapters, and 4 for the community in general. That seems a healthier proportion. Moreover, if you increase the community-selected board members to 4, this would ensure that the majority of members (6 out of 11) can trace their presence on the board to the results of a democratic process. Hey, you could just re-add James, leaving María in place. :) I think the community might welcome that, as a signal of reconciliation. Andreas _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
