[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Apr 28 16:47:11 UTC 2008


Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Delirium wrote:
>>  > 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 ;-)
>>     
> Hey, the method of chapter selection hasn't been determined yet,
> right?  So the chapters could just choose to use the same election
> process as the rest of the elected members.  Or would the board forbid
> that?

That sounds like a throwback to the very first elections that brought 
Anthere and Angela to the Board.  One of the seats would somehow have 
been linked to formal membership, but that proved to be impractical so 
the two positions became indistinguishable from each other.

Ec



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