Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
On sunday 13th of June German wikipedians founded a local wikimedia association in Berlin: the ''Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens'' (''Wikimedia Germany - society for the promotion of free knowledge''). We had 34 founding members - among them friends of wikipedia and of course a lot of people of the german wikipedia.
A board of trustees with ten members was elected, among them Kurt Jansson as chairman.
This is more a general issue, not specifically related to the Wikimedia Deutschland meeting, but it came up so I figured this was a good time to mention it. I'd personally prefer if important things, like votes for foundations, not take place at "in-person" meetings, because not all of us have sufficient funds to attend such meetings. Internet elections are much more inclusive. An exception would be if it were a local-only organization, such as a "Wikimedia Amsterdam chapter", in which case having a local meeting in Amsterdam would suffice. But in this case it seems to be a Germany-wide organization, which would bias it against Germans who live far from Berlin and don't have much money to spend on traveling to such meetings. Or am I misunderstanding the setup?
-Mark