--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
From: Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 12:14 PM
Anthony's strategy provides for a
guiding body to oversee the local chapters (something that takes too much time and effort for the foundation to do, and also something they must be separate from for liability reasons), but keeps the emphasis on the local chapters, to conduct local events and local outreach, something that they can do far better than any national chapter, while national stuff can be reserved for the WMF to handle. The national guiding body also simplifies the issue of the US local chapters candidates for the 2 board seats.
I am not sure I understand the need the bare-bones national structure (ignoring the issue of baord seats). What does having it allow to happen that cannot happen without it?
Regarding board seats, I think it is silly to design something around this issue until *after* a selection process is approved. It could be possibly arranged in a way that makes no differnce how many chapters are in the US or not.
Birgitte SB
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