MeFiCoFo update

October 15, 2024 8:56 AM

A few updates about the MetaFilter Community Foundation

1) My previous post was mistaken about incorporation. Incorporation is going to happen soon with a boilerplate set of bylaws, and then the first board for the newly incorporated org will adopt the full bylaws after a round community feedback.

2) Some clarifications about the new structure, which came up in the last thread.

-MetaFilter.com members
Participate on metafilter.com
Volunteer on committees and activities for the Website and MeFiCoFo
Provide input and feedback via MetaTalk and other channels

-MetaFilter Community Foundation fellows
Criteria to be a fellow: Time on site (proposal is for 6 months), contributions (A combination of posts/comments)
Can be pseudonymous
Can vote on MeFiCoFo governance issues, including MeFiCoFo board members

-MeFiCoFo Executive Director
Responsible for day to day management of MeFiCoFo and staff
Execute policy from the Board

-MeFiCoFo Board of Directors
Manage the ED
Set and direct policy with input from members, fellows and staff.
Overall governance

3) Incorporation updates:
Should be happening very soon
We’ll post the full initial draft of the bylaws for comments/feedback in the next two to three weeks as well.

4) Assistance we’ll need soon
-Bylaws feedback (as mentioned above)
-Various tasks related to ED search as needed
-Assistance with the full board elections (Selecting/implementing voting platform for board elections, Other tasks as needed)


If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post here or reach out via memail

posted by Gorgik to MetaFilter-Related at 8:56 AM (2 comments total)

Thanks for this -- for context, Gorgik has been a relatively new addition to the group and so he's been playing catch-up on everything! But he's a fast study, and this is a good recap. It looks complicated but at bottom it's an attempt to provide some structure the org, to avoid governance-by-endless-unresolvable-MeTas. And ofc it's just a start -- limitations in the initial set-up can be discussed and improved over time. (Boilerplate will be used for the incorporation paperwork, but there will be a follow-up MeTa with the finalized bylaws for discussion.)
posted by Rhaomi at 11:16 AM on October 15 [6 favorites]

Because my brain is broken, the post title sent me immediately to this scene from Doctor Who.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:49 AM on October 15 [1 favorite]