--- On Sun, 5/4/08, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
From: effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming To: birgitte_sb@yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <C> Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 9:59 AM 2008/5/4, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com:
The board suggested in the restructuring FAQ
said:
"We acknowledge that giving the chapters an
official voice in the governance of the Foundation makes it more important than before, that chapters -as much as possible- reflect the full range of Wikimedia supporters. Therefore, we now want to encourage the creation of sub-national chapters in the United States." [1]
This is where my interest in the US chapter
information stems from. So please don't patronize me that the US is asking for attention or making an issue out of something that should simply be neglected if the need is not felt. The only reason there is an issue at all is that people from outside of the US are insisting there should not be sub-national chapters without a national one. Perhaps I should have ignored them rather than started this attempt I have been making to see those concerns addressed.
Birgitte SB
[1]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announceme...
Yeah, you are right, the FAQ seems to suggest that indeed. OK, I should reword my statement probably to something along the lines that I do not want to tell people that they should set up a chapter. I agree that the balance of pro's and con's has been changed somewhat since the board restructuring yes. But after all, it remains so that the volunteers running the chapter should decide whether it is worth it. Whether things are worth the trouble.
Thank you. I am personally uncertain whether things are worth the trouble. That is why I am trying to get answers on why the board and people who believe chapters to be important think US chapter(s) to be worthwhile.
Birgitte SB
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