[Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming

[Dan Rosenthal]

Don't we have a Philadelphia or a Pennsylvania chapter too?

-Dan
On May 1, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Hoi,
> So far a chapter was created per jurisdiction; as the law of the  
> Netherlands
> is different from the law in Germany it is best to have one  
> organisation set
> up in this way if you want to make use of tax deduction and the like.
>
> At this moment there are no sub-national chapters so this notion is
> academic. It would make sense to have a US chapter in the first  
> place. When
> a particular chapter has proven itself, it makes sense to give it more
> influence. The German chapter is well organised and has a lot of  
> experience.
> I would rate their contribution higher then a newly created chapter.
>
> It is about getting the job done and get a decent job done. If it is  
> only
> about power, then I think this whole notion stinks.
>
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Dalton  
> <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/1 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:
>>> If we consider the chapter seats to be semi-community seats, I think
>>> it makes sense to bring in some kind of relation with either the
>>> number of members, or even better (but harder to regulate) the
>>> activity of a chapter. There are a lot of chapters, and I think it
>>> makes sense that only "active" chapters should have a say in this.
>>> Otherwise that would only attract people to get a chapter just to be
>>> able to vote. I think that is something to consider.
>>
>> I agree, some kind of proportionality is probably required. If it's
>> one-chapter-one-vote then we also have issues with sub-national
>> chapters - should they get one vote per country or one vote per
>> chapter? I think it would be best to keep it proportional by some
>> measure. Financial turnover might be better than membership - it's  
>> not
>> so easy to pad out with inactive members.
>>
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