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

[Mike Godwin]

Delphine writes:

> Would people in the US
> start with metro-area chapters, state-based chapters, regional
> sections? Or with a national one?

That's an interesting question.  When we started EFF (now 18 years  
ago), the organization itself was not chapter-based, although we did  
initiate memberships within a year. But at least three groups of  
individuals -- in California, Texas, and New York City -- started down  
the road to forming chapters pretty quickly thereafter. One of them,  
EFF-Austin, is still around.  It's separately incorporated and  
conducts its own activities within Texas independent of EFF's national  
and international activities.  (There are also EFF-like organizations  
in Canada and Australia and elsewhere, I believe.)


--Mike