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

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  --- On Sun, 5/4/08, Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>  > From: Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>
>  > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming
>  > To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>  > Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:24 AM
>
>
>  > Chapters can handle donations, press contacts, organize
>  > larger events
>  > and so on. Some of that needs a core team at a certain
>  > place, most of
>  > the jobs are not connected with the geographic placements
>  > of active
>  > members.
>
>  Since all of this is handled in the US, why do people expect us to waste our time on bureaucracy of setting up a chapter?
>

Who is the "us" in this question?