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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Easy you answer it yourself. The USA is one country under God, Europe is
not.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > On the long term, when the chapters chose board members, there will
> >  raise the question how many votes a chapter has, if there will be one
> >  vote per chapter etc. Whether a country has one or several chapters
> >  might become important, and I wonder whether other chapters will be
> >  fond of multiple chapters in another country. On the other side, when
> >  the Foundation has to deal with chapters, it will be easier if the
> >  number of chapters cannot be theoretically unlimited.
> >  Therefore there should be the rule "one country, one chapter", to
> >  avoid several problems.
>
> And how does this eliminate any more problems than "one state, one
> chapter"?  I note that even the term "country" is generally defined
> with respect to the term "state".
>
> If the EU has more than one chapter, why not the US?
>
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