Le jeudi 01 septembre 2011 à 16:37 +0100, Jimmy Wales a écrit :
I had never thought of this before, but now that it has been mentioned, I just wanted to disagree, quite respectfully because Ray is awesome of course, and say that I think it is a very interesting idea to have a WMF appointee on the boards of chapters.
Oh. First it seems that the Foundation aims at centralize all the fundraising and control Chapters' activity by the way of a imposed grant agreement, and then the Foundation could have an appointee on each chapter's board... It would be very simplier (even if not safer) to open official WMF's desks every where...
Nice moves but what about the legal and fiscal issues implied by the presence of a WMF appointee on the board ? It would be just a little bit harder to explain that the chapters « are independent associations », isn't it ?
Does the Foundation really want to have subsidiaries in more than 30 countries and undertake all the legal and fiscal risks ?