On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
Sarah, if the volunteer community was organised and had its own, functional representative body that had the community's trust and respect, that would, to some degree, correct the present asymmetry between us and the WMF.
Our only rights in relation to them are to fork or leave. While we are atomised, the latter is our only option. Organised, forking becomes a serious possibility. Of course, I hope it never comes to that. But without that possibility, we are in the position of just having to take whatever from the WMF - good and bad.
Anthony Cole
Anthony, I do agree that the community should organize.
I would prefer to see the Foundation become a membership organization with different bylaws so that we are actually electing the trustees. A separate body would be good, although the Board could ignore that body too if it wanted. But yes, any kind of organizing is better than the present situation.
Sarah