<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Cross posting to Commons from internal:<br><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>----- "David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> From: "David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com><br>> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>> Sent: Thursday, 4 June, 2009 15:26:29 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal<br>> Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Our system is collapsing<br>><br>> The issues are ongoing, and well beyond the present case -<br>> fundamentally that too many people on Commons don't want it to be a<br>> service project. This is unworkable and must be remedied.<br><br>The way the governance is set up at the moment is no different to any other project. Maybe if it is to be a "service project", the governance - particularly the way admins are selected - should be different from stand-alone projects.<br><br>regards,<br><br>Andrew<br></div></div></div></body></html>