[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Florence Devouard]

Delirium wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>> The chapter seats comes from several considerations.
>> Essentially, the mission of the WMF is to work in coordination with a 
>> network of chapters. The mission is shared between all of our 
>> organizations, and the WMF controls certain assets needed by the 
>> chapters (trademarks), which made the partnership a certain one-sided 
>> collaboration. Providing seats to chapters is both a way to foster a 
>> real coordination between all of our organizations, and a way to 
>> recognize the chapter role in the great scheme of things.
>>   
> 
> This may be a laudable long-term goal to aim at, but for the medium 
> term, the vast majority of countries are not represented by  a 
> chapter---and those regions that do have chapters are already 
> disproportionately well-represented. So this will, if anything, tend to 
> increase the disparity in representation.
> 
> For the record, this is the current chapter distribution:
> Europe - 9
> East Asia - 2
> Middle East - 1
> South America - 1
> Australia - 1
> 
> -Mark


You are absolutely correct Mark.
But you may not have understood that chapters will not necessarily elect 
chapter members ?
I even have the weakness to think that they will have the wisdom to 
avoid that trap ;-)

Ant