On 10/01/2008, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I have been thinking about the wikicouncil stuff lately and it seems to me there is room for another form of community representation, something like a union of editors.
WMF<->Project communication is necessary and I think it would be suited to a wikicouncil. But then there is the more general WMF<->community representation, where "community" is the self-elected group of people who are interested in "meta issues"... ie foundation-l posters at the moment.
I know the Foundation gave up formal membership however-long-ago but I don't think that would preclude them from organising, or perhaps more accurately recognising, a membership group that was legally powerless. (We don't need to be legally powerful to have power: the most powerful thing we have is the right to fork.)
Maybe I'm a complete fool, but isn't that the point of Chapters? I understood the concept of Wikicouncil to be a combination of project-specific and geographical representatives. Already people would have two (or more!) forms of input in to the Council - would it be necessary to have even more, especially as most people interested in the Wikicouncil would be interested in the Foundation anyway?
In case I make myself look (even more) like a fool, I should explain that my ideas on Wikicouncil were formed back in '03/'04 ish. and so I may be very out of date. I sadly don't have time to read every post even to this list. :-(
Yrs,