Talk:Technology Committee

Membership

I'm understanding this committee as a steering group for Developer work funded by WMUK - so it would for example make recommendations for a development strategy and particular projects, evaluate current progress and possibly oversee project spending in certain budget lines agreed by the board. I'm guessing it would receive and review reports from relevant staff members (CE, Developers (contracted or permanent) and Fundraising Organiser particularly) and action staff members to carry recommendations.

As such, I've asked to be a member, but that is possibly not appropriate, albeit I would expect key staff members to be asked to be in attendance. What doe we think would be a good member approval process? Would we have an upper limit on numbers? I presume these would need to go to the board to be approved with the proposal to approve the committee. Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 14:45, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

When the proposal for subcommittees was made, I envisaged a group that would (i) use the abilities of its members to devolve the load of work that the Board does in a particular field; and (ii) be a conduit for a broad base of stakeholders to communicate with the Board in that area. The stakeholders include staff as well as volunteers, so I recommended that each subcommittee should have a place for a member of staff (if any staff was interested) to be a member in their own right, rather than to service the committee. I believe that the Board agreed that principle, so I would say that it is perfectly appropriate for Katherine to be a member of the Technology Committee. --RexxS (talk) 18:01, 9 October 2012 (UTC)