[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" <C>
> Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 9:59 AM
> 2008/5/4, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
> > > > The board suggested in the restructuring FAQ
> said:
> >
> >  "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]
> >
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >  Birgitte SB
> > 
> [1]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
> 
> 

Thank you.  I am personally uncertain whether things are worth the trouble.  That is why I am trying to get answers on why the board and people who believe chapters to be important think US chapter(s) to be worthwhile. 


Birgitte SB


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