Hi Folks at WIScom, It's been more than two weeks since Ingo requested clarifications on the structure of the steering committee. Can someone from the committee respond to these request for clarification?
It's unwise to keep mute when a legitimate questions are asked. I look forward to reading your response. Thank you, Isaac On Jun 21, 2018 8:55 AM, "Ingo Koll" <[email protected]> wrote: > *Proposed composition of the Steering Committee * > > I read https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba. The proposed > composition of the Steering Committee is not clear. And the language is not > clear in several points. > > - Page says: "made up of a representative of all past organizers of > Wiki Indaba" - this is ONE representative of (all? selected by whom?) past > organizers. > - Page says: "Country Representation (Previous Organizers of the > Conference)" - does this mean ALL, thus a steadily growing number year > after year? Up to which number? > - office terms - has this been decided this way by the last > Wikiindaba? Otherwise it does not look wise to fix the periods for "country > representatives" and "volunteers" in this way. If ever for some reason a > Wikiindaba has to be cancelled, resulting in a year without WikiIndaba, the > committee can reach its defined time limit. To me it looks wiser to state a > period until the coming one or two Wikiindabas. > - Page says: "The role of the volunteer coordinator spans a tenure of > one and half years maximum. This role is automatically awarded to the best > candidate during the application process." What does this mean? A > "volunteer coordinator" is not defined anywhere. How does something happen > "automatically"? What automat finds out "the best" and by what criteria?? > - Page says: "The term of office is 2 years after which their > organisation can have new elections to select a rep" - so if the > "organisation" (elsewhere the language is "affiliate") has no new election? > > Appreciate any clarification. Cheers Kipala > > > Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom) (Florence Devouard) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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