[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Sebastian Moleski]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:

> >Just to clarify one point, the chapters committee is not an
> >inter-chapter structure, but a committee appointed by the Board of
> >Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, which lends a hand to the Board
> >and chapters coordinator (myself) on the Foundation side, as well as
> >helps new and existing chapters when it comes to chapters matters.
> >
> >Its main task in the past months has been the guidance of new would-be
> >chapters in their first steps towards officialisation as Wikimedia
> >chapters.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Delphine
>
> If there is no "inter-chapter structure", how
> will the Chapters vote on two people for the new
> positions?
>

We make something up that works, by trial and error. Very much similar to
how Wikipedia works.

The way I see it is this: the foundation offers the chapters to select two
of the seats on the board of trustees. Now it's our (the chapters') job to
figure out what way of choosing the people for those two seats works best
for us. I see this as an outstanding opportunity for chapters to grow closer
together and improve communication among themselves. There's always been
talk about how valuable it would be for chapters to work closer together.
Now there's yet another good incentive to do so.

Sebastian