[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Dan Rosenthal]

That's assuming the 2 chapters seats are elected. AFAICT nothing says  
that they need to be.

You have 3 elected. 2 undefined. 4 appointed. 1 for life.

Even if both chapter seats are elected, it still does not give a  
majority of elected seats. Even if both the chapter seats are  
considered "community", it requires Jimmy's seat to be considered  
"community" to create a community majority. Considering that Jimmy's  
seat disappears if he ever decides to resign/quit, that certainly  
doesn't help. It also does not address any of the issues that have  
been raised as to whether Jimmy adequately can represent the community  
(especially based on backlash from his various actions on en.wp over  
the past year). But any discussion of Jimmy's seat is really a non  
issue, because it simply disappears if Jimmy ever decides to retire  
from the board.

It takes fuzzy math and stretching of facts to spin this in anyway to  
be a "strengthening" of the community. The only way the community can  
actually be said to be strengthened in any way here is IF the chapter  
seats remain elected, and from community members. That's yet uncertain  
and the process to do so undefined, and even if it were to go through,  
nothing prevents the chapters from changing it in the future.

So, I think the response that the community is being screwed here is  
justified.


-Dan
On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>> Mike, the new change has made it�so a majority is unelected.
>
> Not by my count.
>
> 3 elected directly on-wiki
> 2 elected via chapters mechanism
>
> 4 appointed
> 1 me
>
> that makes 5 elected, 5 appointed
>
> It also makes 6 community, 4 potentially "outside"
>
> I don't see this as having any impact on the overall community control
> of the board other than perhaps strengthening it by giving due  
> weight to
> the chapter structures.
>
>
> --Jimbo
>
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