Michael Snow wrote:
Over time, the elections are also showing the same edit-count creep that manifests itself in the selection of administrators on mature projects. The effect is to increasingly exclude people who should have been considered part of the community. I don't have easy solutions for how to address this while still preventing manipulation through sockpuppet accounts and the like, but this is one reason we added a second method for the community to choose board members through the chapter selection process. In the chapter setting, participation is more clearly related to individual identity, and it goes some distance toward offering the membership system that was originally contemplated, whose failure to implement some people still lament.
--Michael Snow
And what if... we tried making the Foundation a membership based organization ?
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