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

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Sun, 5/4/08, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming
> To: birgitte_sb at yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 9:02 AM
> 2008/5/4, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> >  --- 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?
> >
> >
> >  Birgitte SB
> >
> >
> >
> If you don't see a need for a chapter, then you should
> not bother to
> set one up of course :) Otherwise the chapter would be kind
> of useless
> indeed. If the members don't beleive in it, the chapter
> will not work.
> I do not think that anyone would want to suggest that one
> *should* set
> up a chapter, but people can of course point out what the
> possible
> advantages are. It's then up to you (anyone who could
> set up a
> chapter) to find out whether the pro's outweight the
> con's
> 
> Lodewijk
> 
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