[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Delphine Ménard]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sebastian Moleski <sebmol at gmail.com> wrote:

>  This really only makes a difference if you let political geography dictate
>  our choices. I don't see any obvious reason why that should be the case.
>  Rather, we always have to come back to (1) what purposes chapters serve and
>  (2) what structure best accomodates those purposes. Ignoring all things
>  political and legal for a minute, it seems to me that, if any of the
>  following criteria are fulfilled, a chapter should be eligible to be formed:
>  * there's a sufficient number of people the chapter would cover with its
>  activities and could draw from for donations
>  * there's a sufficient legal or tax advantage that could be exploited (e.g.
>  tax-deductibility of charitable donations)
>
>  Apart from these criteria, why do things like borders matter?

If I may, legal or tax advantages are usually not tied to some
"virtual cutout" of the world. They are very much tied to "political
and geographical borders".

So yes, I believe borders matter, whether we want it or not.


Delphine
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