[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Brian]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>wrote:

> Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> >> > [...]
> >> > The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think
> >> > it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few
> >> > poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the
> >> > community as members of the chapters. There are other global
> >> > non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation
> >> > of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.)
>
> >> Why? What's broken at the moment?
>
> > The English full-history dump, for one.
>
> And that would work if the WMF were a membership organiza-
> tion? Interesting.
>
> Tim
>

If it were once again a membership organization it would imply that the
Foundation had not reneged on the original vision without the ability of the
community, which approved that vision, to provide input on the modified
input. It would turn around the Foundation's usurping of community power. It
would give each community member a voice.