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

[Ray Saintonge]

Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
>
>   
Are you taking into account additional time for security, and other 
check-in matters.  Going the other way from NY to  anywhere in the US 
could involve two hours sitting on the plane while it waits for 
clearance to take off.

Ec