Really? Cause I didn't get that message at all. What I got out of it was, "The board intends to consolidate the power of the existing big name chapters, and make some gesture of including them on the board, but we're actually not addressing substantively the issue of making it easy for them to actually form and be approve."
There's no excuse for blaming the chapters or the people in them when the system for developing and approving them is fundamentally flawed.
-Dan On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
In my view, when the board of WMF decided to let chapters select two representatives, it was also a heavy message to the chapters: collect your wits and be grown ups. I am not quite sure how chapters can select board members when they are not even able to self organize to get a common mailing list for an election. That's not necessarily out of bad will, but mostly poor infrastructure and lack of cooperation.