On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
.... I have a hard time understanding why people think chapters are representative of the community. They're representative of people who like to join chapters.
I agree with your premise here, however, chapter board members are elected by their membership (afaik, that occurs in all chapters), so their membership has the obvious recourse of electing someone else.
Hardly. I don't know what my chapter's opinion was in selecting the chapter-selected members, I don't know who from the board members did anything about it anyway, and besides the board has been chosen for other things they're good at than selecting board members.
So if I don't agree with the chapter-selected board members, my recourse is to vote down board members of my own chapter that may or may not have been involved in the choice of my chapter to support or not support that board member, disregarding other, probably more important factors to choose that chapter board member. Doesn't sound to me like a very high of accountability to me or other chapter members...