[Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office

Wed May 31 13:26:42 UTC 2006

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Wikimedia's board is obviously way too small.
> 
> Anthony

Seconded.
What I think could be a good "measure" is that all committees should 
have at least one board member sitting on it (as a rule of thumb).

Current situation of committees

Audit committee : Michael and Jimbo are on it (perhaps Tim as well, 
memory hole here). The committee has successfully selected an audit firm 
and the audit is ongoing.

Board expansion committee : Jimbo, Angela and Anthere are on it. 
Currently a bit stalling...

Chapters committee : no board member on it. Delphine handles it pretty 
well :-) A cool committee

Communications committee : Angela on it. Seems to be pretty active 
committee. Regular reports provided.

Executive committee : inactive committee. Should be replaced by a CEO

Events committee : no board member on it. Was started from what I heard.

Financial committee : Michael on it. Hummm, not really (yet ?) a committee

Insurance committee : jeeee, so inactive that I do not even remember who 
is on it... (personal note : what is going on here ?)

Technical committee : no board member on it. But Michael (and I as a 
pompom girl) follow what is going on.

Special projects committee : Anthere on it. Ongoing committee with needs 
for more experts

Trademarks committee : no board member on it. Should be transformed in a 
legal committee (or a new committee be created).

 From a quick glance, I'd say we have a couple of major holes.

In particular a legal hole. A board member from legal background is 
required.

I recently suggested to Mav to propose the creation of a fundraising 
committee (I presume Mav resolution is pending), which seems to neither 
really fit with comcom, nor with financial com, nor with technical com, 
though the three committees would be involved as well.

The special projects committee is also supposed to take care of business 
development and grants. Additional expertise on these matters to add on 
the board would possibly be quite neat as well.

Maybe a big shot related to the technical side of things might be cool 
on the board as well, if only to help us make more deal with big firms 
on technical issues.

ant