[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation in 5 years - Giant brainstorming - a game with rules

Tue Aug 30 09:14:15 UTC 2005

Some thoughts:

* Board and management
Board consists of a president (Jimmy Wales, hard to imagine otherwise), a 
representative of the chapters, and 2 or 3 representatives for the 
volunteers. All non-paid.
The board is supported by two (paid) secretaries (handling correspondence, 
phone, communication of board meetings etc to the community)

* Staff
The board members coördinate the chief officers. The chief officers are the 
head of their department (mostly local officers, for development and 
financial there is no need for locals). All non-paid (except for the members 
of the financial department - not the chief). Local members can be chapter 
representatives, but that is not necessary.
Press: Contact for the press, coördination of press releases
Grants: Coördination of grants and fundraising
Legal: Go into action agains people who don't respect our license, taking 
care of legal claims against us, advising chapters and projects
PR: Coördination of promotion of WMF in general (for example newsletters), 
and specific activities (for example the reaching of certain milestones, 
Wikimania, local congresses). Maybe also the organisation of Wikimania (with 
an ad hoc committee).
Development: Taking care of software development
Financial: Bookkeeping, budgetting
Other departments???

*Fundraising scheme:
More structural grants from (for example) United Nations and the European 
Union.

* Chapters:
The chapters in Europe have evolved into departments of the European 
Chapter. 

-Fruggo