[Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board

Wed Apr 2 19:43:09 UTC 2008

Yes, to finally create a community structure. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:41:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board

Does the name really matter?

You can call the staff Grand Pubahs and the board
the Great Potentates if you like, but it doesn't change
their role.

-Chad

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or the Working Group on Community Relations?
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>  From: Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>
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>  Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 7:02:58 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > What if this Volunteer Council has no real offficial standing and solely regulates the Community? No tax problems, right?
>
>  This is more along the lines of what I've been thinking about. If the
>  VC is a community-based structure, and does not change the governance
>  structure of the foundation, it's a moot point entirely. Th VC
>  shouldn't change the structure of the foundation any more then the
>  chapcom or the languages subcommittee or any other advisory committee
>  do. If terminology is a problem, perhaps we should rename it to
>
> something more benign, like "volunteer committee", or "community
>  advisory board" or something.
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>  --Andrew Whitworth
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