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

[Ryan]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is based on size. Germany has an area of around 138,000
> square miles, and has around 82 million people. California alone has
> 163,000 or so square miles of area, bigger than Germany, but only
> around 32 million people, meaning it has a much larger area for far
> fewer people.
>
> And that's just one state out of 50. There are significant cultural
> differences between Louisiana and New Jersey, for instance. A US
> national chapter is not necessarily able to adequately represent that.
> Not to mention, the individual states in the US are so large and
> autonomous they act almost at the same level as other countries
> throughout the world.
>
> -Dan


And certainly, logistically, there's a serious problem.  A flight from New
York to Los Angeles, for example, would cost anywhere from $300-500
round-trip.  And driving would be out of the question for most; that's a
2,700 mile, 40-hour drive.

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