Following up on Bishakha's appointment, this means we now have the full complement of members on the Board of Trustees. With that taken care of, for now we have decided to dissolve the nominating committee which participated in the process. Again, I want to thank the volunteers on the committee for their service and their help in seeking out and screening candidates.
Part of the reason for this is that the board generally agreed that the committees need further reorganization, and this will likely start with the creation of a Governance Committee. For the vast majority of nonprofit boards, this committee (which may go by different names) is a basic organizational standard, designing the operational structure of the board and overseeing its effectiveness. In our ad hoc organization, we haven't gotten around to this properly, and I think the board's work would benefit significantly. One of the first things a Governance Committee would do is review which committees are needed, whether we have them or not, what their responsibilities should be, composition and so forth. More will be forthcoming as those recommendations are developed. --Michael Snow _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l