On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Fae faewik@gmail.com wrote:
@Jan-Bart One of the early discussions before agreeing the WCA charter was the possibility of automatically counting all legally recognized chapters as members. It was felt that this would not result in a credible democratic process, indeed the current 21 members are not all very active in votes and the current voting pattern shows participation at around 2/3 of the members or less in any vote. If we counted all
Chapters, then a quorum would have to be set to be artificially
low.< http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/20...
Should any Chapter wish to vote in this election, they need only provide a statement to me and then the new Council member sends in a statement that they support the charter. The Council member need not be on the board of the Chapter. There are no fees, there are no specific duties and we are always looking for more light-weight ways of handing our processes. Any Council member recognized before the vote opens, will be eligible to vote.
Err .... ok, I'm sorry but this actually moves to the realms of scary. You require the new Council member to send in a statement ... pledging loyalty essentially? I don't see anything in the charter that would require something like that, is it in your remit as chair? Sadly that just sounds like a way to force out reformers, if you don't support the charter you can't join the council? How do you expect to get things to change when necessary?
James