[Foundation-l] "Expertise" board seats: the NomCom invites your feedback

Mon Nov 3 12:15:29 UTC 2008

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nobody's suggesting replacing an community. But what has ChapCom done
>> to proactively find out where the WMF Canada chapter is currently at,
>> what help they need, what ChapCom can do to speed things up etc?
>
> Nothing, frankly. A couple of months ago, we circulated the idea that
> we could "assign" ChapCom members to each prospective chapters, so
> that every chapter has its own point-of-contact for minor things
> (because it's easier to ask one person that to ask an entire
> group=mailinglist) *and* so that these ChapCom people can regularly
> follow-up on "their" chapters if things appear to be stalled.
> I just remember this now, to be honest, and I'm somewhat surprised
> that this was completely forgotten again, I think we need to revive
> this idea again.

Well, chapter-in-formation Wikimedia New York City got "assigned" to
ChapCom member Andrew Whitworth, and this has worked out very well for
us.  To his great credit, Andrew has consistently followed up and
checked in on our progress, been a fantastic sounding-board for ideas,
and served as a helpful mediator between our group and the larger WMF
structures.

I think Andrew's example would be a excellent one to follow.

Thanks,
Pharos

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