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

[effe iets anders]

2008/5/4, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb op yahoo.com>:
> > > The board suggested in the restructuring FAQ said:
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>  "We acknowledge that giving the chapters an official voice in the governance of the Foundation makes it more important than before, that chapters -as much as possible- reflect the full range of Wikimedia supporters. Therefore, we now want to encourage the creation of sub-national chapters in the United States." [1]
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>  This is where my interest in the US chapter information stems from.  So please don't patronize me that the US is asking for attention or making an issue out of something that should simply be neglected if the need is not felt. The only reason there is an issue at all is that people from outside of the US are insisting there should not be sub-national chapters without a national one.  Perhaps I should have ignored them rather than started this attempt I have been making to see those concerns addressed.
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>  Birgitte SB
>  [1]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A
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Yeah, you are right, the FAQ seems to suggest that indeed. OK, I
should reword my statement probably to something along the lines that
I do not want to tell people that they should set up a chapter. I
agree that the balance of pro's and con's has been changed somewhat
since the board restructuring yes. But after all, it remains so that
the volunteers running the chapter should decide whether it is worth
it. Whether things are worth the trouble.

BR, Lodewijk