Wow, this is a gross misrepresentation of the
reality.
While Foundation staff has provided an invaluable support to make the
fundraiser a success, it probably wouldn't have been such a success
hadn't there been dozens of volunteers, among which _many_ chapter
board members and simple members who spent uncounted hours of
localizing and adapting messages, providing stories, refining landing
pages, answering donors questions etc.
You may want to look at the fundraising pages on meta to see the level
of involvement of the community as a whole in making it a success, and
even that does not give a real idea of how much chapters' communities
have participated (much happens on their chapters' mailing lists for
example).
Delphine, do you mean the above applies to ALL chapters? I would doubt it.
Without giving names, I am not involved with any chapters at all, but what
I hear of some of them is indeed a lot of useful activity including
fundraising, project proposals etc, whereas I only hear of others when they
get involved into some quarrels or controversies. May be this is then not
so much of a misinterpretation.
Cheers
Yaroslav