On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ad Huikeshoven ad@wikimedia.nl wrote:
B) Another way would be to use securepoll to (s)elect a number of people in a specific country by active editors in that country to accept certain representative roles, for example in two way communication between foundation and community about technology changes, but also to oversee processes to recruit new editors and onboard them. I imagine a (s)election process like the (s)election of community (s)elected BoT members, however with voters restricted to editors who are active in that country based on geo-ip. Maybe some countries are so big, that it would be wiser to do this at state level.
yup, that's effectively the idea of volunteer community liaisons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pundit/liaisons, I've been trying to discuss for a while (in Mexico, Luis was quite receptive, but understandably in the following months the idea did not receive the highest priority).
dj