[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

Sun Mar 16 22:47:39 UTC 2008

The Board is accountable. If they really screwed up, you know what would happen? Somebody would lead an exodus of most of the editors and start a new Foundation. An army without soldiers can not fight.  

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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

Hoi,
When you want to change something, you may be of the opinion that some
things should be different. In the mean time it is existing board that has
to vote in the changes that you propose. In all the things that have been
said there is nothing that makes people accountable. The current board is
not accountable; we do not have a clue how well board members perform. It is
only the executive director who is accountable.. accountable to the board.

Because of your involvement it is acceptable/legitimate for you to propose
changes to the way the WMF operates. In the final analysis however it is
only the board that is in the position to act upon it.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/15/08, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  2) The Board is already accountable to the community, through the
> annual election.
>
> While we are moving toward this model, this is still a gray zone. Only
> Florence, Kat and Frieda are elected members of the Board. And (at
> least for me) only three of them have legitimacy to choose other
> members of the Board.
>
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