[Foundation-l] Would you consider being on the Board?

Sun Jun 11 01:38:46 UTC 2006

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:06:25AM +1000, Angela wrote:
> With the talk on this list recently of jobs that need doing, I'm
> interested to know whether there are many people who would be
> interested in being a member of the Board if there were more seats
> available. If that is something you'd consider, please let me know.

The old internet maxim is that anyone who wants the job, probably isn't
suited to it. It might be wiser to find people who might be suitable,
and then somehow do them an offer they cannot refuse.

I don't know any people from outside wikimedia at this moment in time
who might be helpful. I'll leave that to others. 

I do know people from the community, and can make some reccomendations.

People who would likely actually be suited from the community or
otherwise might be:
* Members of chapter boards , who we could steal
* people currently doing other foundation work who could be "promoted"
* People generally trusted inside a particular wikipedia community
* all around smart people.

Some aspects that might be good
* Typically "older" users who have a lot of experience
* People who are mild, and unlikely to enter conflict
* People who have also had some amount of real life experience.

Here's some people with current responsibilities, that I know of and can
quickly dig up out of my (endo)memory. 

* James Forrester (arbitration, current foundation work, uk chapter)
* Sannse (mediation and arbitration, otrs)
* Mindspillage (Mediation and arbitration, otrs, press contact)
* Oscar (Did interim management irl, setting up wikimedia netherlands
  chapter, otrs, might not enjoy getting more work)
* Essjay (Some current foundation work, highly trusted. Wikipedoholic)
* Amgine (Often more approachable than anyone else on foundation
          matters, press)
* Elian  (Already used to bossing jimbo around O:-) )
* Delphine (Chapters committee)
* Bishonen (Known to a lot of people, seen as voice of reason)

* Explicitly not Brion. He's doing too much useful work as a
  developer. :-)

If eveyone else searches their memory in the same way, we'll quickly
have a decent shortlist. 

Only come up with suitable people for now.  Don't worry if they protest
or refuse for now, we'll sort that part out later.

So now it's up to the rest of the list to come up with some more names.
Ideas?

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

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