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

[Michael Snow]

effe iets anders wrote:
> 2008/5/1, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>:
>   
>> Well, some people are talking about US chapterS, but shouldn't there
>>  be only one chapter per country? Otherwise, other chapters could get
>>  the idea to split up and have e.g. 16 chapters in Germany.
>>  Especially when chapters will have the right to vote for Board
>>  members, one will have to be strict about that.
>>  Ziko
>>     
> My personal go on this is: Discourage too much splitting up, but
> further assume good faith and let the chapters work out the most
> practical solution. At the end, that is what it is all about.
>   
I fully agree with Lodewijk. Incidentally, if the system incorporates 
some kind of proportionality - though I don't know what I would 
recommend - that would go some distance toward discouraging splitting up 
a chapter just to get more votes.

--Michael Snow