[Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 12:14 PM

 Anthony's strategy provides for a
> guiding body to  
> oversee the local chapters (something that takes too much
> time and  
> effort for the foundation to do, and also something they
> must be  
> separate from for liability reasons), but keeps the
> emphasis on the  
> local chapters, to conduct local events and local outreach,
> something  
> that they can do far better than any national chapter,
> while national  
> stuff can be reserved for the WMF to handle. The national
> guiding body  
> also simplifies the issue of the US local chapters
> candidates for the  
> 2 board seats.

I am not sure I understand the need the bare-bones national structure (ignoring the issue of baord seats).  What does having it allow to happen that cannot happen without it?  

Regarding board seats, I think it is silly to design something around this issue until *after* a selection process is approved.  It could be possibly arranged in a way that makes no differnce how many chapters are in the US or not.  

Birgitte SB


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