On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Abhinav Srivastava <abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> Please be assured, although your concerns are genuine but they do not hold > any weight. The only people who are somewhat intimately associated with the > Chapter are its founder members. Continuing on my genuine weightless concerns, here's a set of excerpts from the PDF in the original email containing this idea. "The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India is to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India Staff and the community comprising of long list of editors across different language groups." "Advisory board members would provide the chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible alternatives based on their expertise from different fields. The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their advices." "The selection of the advisory board members would be determined by the nature of what is sought and expected by the chapter, as the per the situation in that period" And now there is detail about the composition of the board. "The advisory board would not have any fixed size , but it is prefered that it consist of 4-8 members.One member would be an individual having an international experience in working with the Wikimedia organisation. The next group of these members would be individuals who were the founding members of the Chapter. The last group of members would be individuals having experience across four different fields such as legal, information technology, government regulation, administrative experience, etc." If the proposed advisory board is expected to bring in new knowledge, development of strategic thinking etc then loading it up with individuals who were the founding members of the chapter seems orthogonal to the rationale. Also, there ought to be a cogent explanation of "founding member of the chapter" is a selection criteria in lieu of 'expertise from different fields'. Given that the advisory board seems to be accountable to none, enforcing an arbitrary group of people whose common denominator is being the founding member of a chapter (which, to be fair, has been somewhat moribund) isn't immediately encouraging. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
