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

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2008/5/1 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Well - the differences between say Bawaria and Branderburg are quite
high as well.  Traveling by a plane from LA to NY and traveling by
train from Frankfurt on Oder to Munich takes similar amount of time. I
guess it is even easier to travel from LA to NY than from Franfurt on
Oder to Munich :-)


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