--- On Sun, 5/4/08, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 9:45 AM --- On Sun, 5/4/08, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
From: effe iets anders
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board
seats - brainstorming
To: birgitte_sb@yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation
Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 9:02 AM 2008/5/4, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com:
--- On Sun, 5/4/08, Henning Schlottmann
h.schlottmann@gmx.net wrote:
From: Henning Schlottmann
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]
Chapter-selected
Board seats - brainstorming
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:24 AM
Chapters can handle donations, press
contacts,
organize
larger events and so on. Some of that needs a core team
at a
certain
place, most of the jobs are not connected with the
geographic
placements
of active members.
Since all of this is handled in the US, why do
people
expect us to waste our time on bureaucracy of setting
up a
chapter?
Birgitte SB
If you don't see a need for a chapter, then you
should
not bother to set one up of course :) Otherwise the chapter would be
kind
of useless indeed. If the members don't beleive in it, the
chapter
will not work. I do not think that anyone would want to suggest that
one
*should* set up a chapter, but people can of course point out what
the
possible advantages are. It's then up to you (anyone who
could
set up a chapter) to find out whether the pro's outweight
the
con's The board suggested in the restructuring FAQ said:
"We acknowledge that giving the chapters an official voice in the governance of the Foundation makes it more important than before, that chapters -as much as possible- reflect the full range of Wikimedia supporters. Therefore, we now want to encourage the creation of sub-national chapters in the United States." [1]
This is where my interest in the US chapter information stems from. So please don't patronize me that the US is asking for attention or making an issue out of something that should simply be neglected if the need is not felt. The only reason there is an issue at all is that people from outside of the US are insisting there should not be sub-national chapters without a national one. Perhaps I should have ignored them rather than started this attempt I have been making to see those concerns addressed.
Birgitte SB [1]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announceme...
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