Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I understood that most of us (chapters) have different preferences, and we respect that.</div><div><br></div><div>I personally prefer an Asian to be part of the board seats, but from the choices we have today, we much prefer a person who has the most interaction with our chapter.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think if knew more each other, and also have a brave person from within our Asian chapters vie for that seat in the next selection, most likely we can have a common preference.</div><div><br></div><div>
It is a good time to discuss mutual regional cooperation first over politics.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> 
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On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Morgan Pak San Chan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:morganpschan@gmail.com">morganpschan@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Kartika,<div><br></div><div>I understand that that the chapters-selected board seat has fiduciary duty,</div><div>but from the view of Asian chapters, a person who have a good understanding </div><div>about Asia is needed to cooperate with Asian chapters, and also suit with the </div>

<div>movement of foundation for the countries like India.</div><div><br></div><div>Lodewijk and Alice are from Euro and i doubt how much they know about Asia.</div><div><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Kartika Sari Henry <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kartika.sari.henry@wikimedia.or.id" target="_blank">kartika.sari.henry@wikimedia.or.id</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Deryck, <br><br>I don&#39;t expect the candidates put Asian communities as their main agenda. <span dir="ltr">Candidates should be fair and representing all (or most) chapters if they get elected. Referring to <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual#Fiduciary_duties" target="_blank">this page,</a> the Selected Board will have fiduciary duty. <br>


<br></span><span dir="ltr"></span><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Under the Board selection procedures, trustees are elected or appointed by different communities or appointed by the Board directly. Nevertheless, a trustee&#39;s fiduciary duties are owed to all of the Foundation, <b>not to the specific group that elected or appointed the trustee.<br>


</b></blockquote><br>Personally, I am willing to reach consensus regionally. At least, so far we only turn in 4 names: Lodewijk, Craig, Alice, and Theo (not so much diverse) :P<br><br>Regards, <br><br>Kartika<br><br><br>

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On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Deryck Chan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:deryckchan@wikimedia.hk" target="_blank">deryckchan@wikimedia.hk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


<p>The main difference between us and Iberocoop is that culturally we&#39;re a much more diverse bunch then them, therefore within the Wikimedia sphere our interests are less aligned with each other than they.</p>
<p>With neither Craig nor Theo putting representing and developing Asian Wikimedian communities as their main agendum (correct me if I&#39;m wrong), coordinated voting between Asian chapters is probably not in the best interests of individual chapters among us.</p>


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<p>Deryck</p>
</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Apr 8, 2012 7:29 PM, &quot;Siska Doviana&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id" target="_blank">siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution">


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<p>To add, I believe there are people from Indian chapter and Bangladesh in this list? How do you guys feel?</p>
<p>Kartika prompt to me that Asian chapters combine are as equal as Iberocoop in terms of quantity; IN, ID, BD, MK, TW, HK, PH : seven. If we can say Asian chapters decided to vote for X and Y, then it means we can actually function regionally. Or we can choose to do it individually, either way i&#39;m cool with it. </p>





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