[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Dan Rosenthal]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the rationale was explained: The  
Board wants the Chapters to have more involvement in the governance of  
the foundation, and since the chapters presumably would know good  
candidates for the board (as they'd probably have already identified  
some as candidates for their own boards) the move benefits both Board  
and Chapters. Presumably, these would be something like "appointed  
community seats"  as opposed to "elected community seats".

-Dan
On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Nathan wrote:

> I'll be curious to see how the various chapters determine amongst
> themselves, without guidance for the board, how to select the two  
> board
> members allocated to them. Will they use the existing inter-chapter
> structure, the Chapters Committee, to coordinate discussion? I'm also
> curious as to the rationale for this change -- have the two chapter  
> seats
> been created because it was felt that the non-English project  
> participants
> have been under-represented in past elections? Do their members vote  
> at
> lower rate of participation than the English project members? I'm  
> assuming
> that all the folks who might participate in local chapters continue  
> to have
> a vote for the community seats, so will the net effect be that their
> individual votes are the equivalent of some multiple of a vote from a
> community member without a representative chapter?
>
> Nathan
>
> On 4/26/08, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, let's let a board member update that one... they might have
>> extended the appointed members' terms at another meeting. ;-)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Kwan Ting Chan <ktc at ktchan.info>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 21:19 +0200, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
>>>
>>>> - Jimmy Wales (term expires December 31, 2008)
>>>
>>> Can someone with access correct
>>>
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcementso 
>>  that it doesn't say 2009 and thus contradicting both this email  
>> and the
>> foundation's own Board page? ;)
>>>
>>> KTC
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