Seconding Béria here - by common sense, a group
called the "Wikimedia
Chapters Association" would represent the Wikimedia chapters. If it only
exists to represent "Wikimedia chapters that sign on to ideas X and Y, and
pledge Z, and attend meeting Q", then the name ought to be more
representative of that - "Biggest Wikimedia Chapters Association", or
"Wikimedia Europe", or "Wikimedia Chapter Politics Interest
Group"...
-Fluffernutter
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, since the WCA don't plan to represent
all the chapters, it would be
good it changed the name to a more suitable representation of the truth
(that would be something like "European Chapters Association" based on the
people present in the last
meeting<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013…
)
to avoid confusion.
_____
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
On 25 February 2013 12:21, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Nathan
<nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The model of voting delegates the casting of votes to members of the
> council; which are individuals, chosen by chapters. Purely from a
> practical perspective, it may not be possible for chapters to get
> council members in order by the deadline for this vote if they are not
> already members. Additionally, it's important to distinguish in voting
> between chapters abstaining and chapters simply not participating.
> Choosing to be a member, while not exercising a vote, is effectively
> assent to the outcome. This is not the case for those chapters which
> have chosen not to join the WCA.
>
while I agree that in principle WCA should serve the large Wikimedia
community and its impact should definitely not be limited to members
only,
I believe it is quite dangerous from the point of
view of governance to
separate membership from voting rights. Although it could make perfect
sense to accept non-member chapter functionaries as candidates for the
board/chair/etc., the very right to vote should be reserved to those who
opt-in. Otherwise the chain of responsibility gets fuzzy, plus what
Nathan
wrote.
best,
dariusz
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