Gov/en/Portal:Institutions/Steering-Committee: Difference between revisions
Founder audio follow-up: Committee inside the Council, election/nomination of commission members by users, regulatory study needed for the day-to-day management layer |
Founder audio: schema embedded, commission presidents as Council members (1-2 delegates per commission), Wikimedia elections model with contributor threshold |
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== 1. A three-level supervision structure == | == 1. A three-level supervision structure == | ||
[[File:WikiDeal-supervision-structure-v0.1.png|thumb|center|620px|Proposed supervision structure (v0.1 draft, basis for discussion)]] | |||
The proposed structure distinguishes three levels of supervision, from the most occasional to the most regular. In the proposed schema, the Steering Committee sits inside the Foundation Council: | The proposed structure distinguishes three levels of supervision, from the most occasional to the most regular. In the proposed schema, the Steering Committee sits inside the Foundation Council: | ||
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* '''Governance commission''' (under discussion): would provide an annual report to the Foundation Council stating, with indicators, that the governance of WikiDeal and of the Foundation remains soundly managed. Being close to audit in nature, it could start inside the audit commission and become distinct later. | * '''Governance commission''' (under discussion): would provide an annual report to the Foundation Council stating, with indicators, that the governance of WikiDeal and of the Foundation remains soundly managed. Being close to audit in nature, it could start inside the audit commission and become distinct later. | ||
Many commission members would come from an election scheme: commission members would be appointed by the WikiDeal users, and preparing these elections, nominations or designations is intended to be part of the commissions' own work. Setting up elections in institutions is a practice the Ynternet.org Foundation teams have carried out routinely in several institutions. | Many commission members would come from an election scheme: commission members would be appointed by the WikiDeal users, and preparing these elections, nominations or designations is intended to be part of the commissions' own work. The election system is intended to follow the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections Wikimedia Foundation elections] model, where governance bodies are elected by the community of contributors. It would come into play once WikiDeal has at least a few thousand, and rather a few tens of thousands, of registered and subscribed contributors, not before; until then, appointments and designations would prevail. Setting up elections in institutions is a practice the Ynternet.org Foundation teams have carried out routinely in several institutions. | ||
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The proposal is that the facilitator and the secretariat would usually be remunerated and external (outside the Steering Committee and the Foundation Council), while the presidency and the quality management would usually be internal. | The proposal is that the facilitator and the secretariat would usually be remunerated and external (outside the Steering Committee and the Foundation Council), while the presidency and the quality management would usually be internal. | ||
Commission presidents would be members of the Foundation Council: each commission would have one or two delegates who are members of the Foundation Council, and thus potentially members of the Steering Committee. | |||
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