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

[Pharos]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>  OK, after having given things another thought, and maybe there is a
>  way to take money as a measure in some weight. We all seem to agree at
>  least to some extent that members are important as a measure. But I
>  think we all know that the membership fee is different, which would
>  give false numbers.
>
>  So an easy measure could be the income gathered from membership fees.
>
>  The bad side is that this only scales very poorly. As long as we only
>  take Western Europe (or even the whole "First world" in economical
>  perspective, including Australia, Taiwan etc) into account, sure it is
>  maybe something to consider. But if there would ever be a Wikimedia
>  Zimbabwe, this system would very much fail of course.
>
>  But does someone have a better idea? This might though be a pro
>  tempore solution, for the current situation (with Argentina maybe as
>  A more
>  complicated solution would be to correct this number with the Bruto
>  National Product (I hope in English you use the same terminology) by
>  some devision or so to get a factor.

The best factors to correct by would be in [[w:List of countries by
GDP (PPP) per capita]].  I see no reason why such a solution couldn't
work.

Thanks,
Pharos