[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Kwan Ting Chan]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:54 +0300, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> I have an idle thought. If there are to be seats elected by
> a limited circle of projects with chapters, would not the
> easiest manner of balancing things be that people from
> projects with chapters not be able to vote in the other
> elections from the community. In this fashion the so called
> "community" seats would be transformed into "chapterless
> community seats".
> 
> Note that this proposal has the virtue that this would not
> disenfranchise nearly all the _individuals_ who contribute
> to projects with chapters, as many of them contribute in
> multiple languages, and thus may have an voting-eligble
> account in a smaller language without chapter.

No, just no.

This *will* be disenfranchising all the people who contribute, some
quite a lot, for the simple reason that they are not involved with the
chapter in their respective country. I will argue that many contributor
in fact _do not_ contribute in multiple language.

KTC

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  - Heinrich Heine
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