[Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

[Florence Devouard]

I was wondering myself.
I thought this information would be in the FAQ, but it is not.

Two questions.

First, the annual meeting.
We hold an annual meeting between all chapters and WMF.
Already, because of the number of chapters, it is recommanded that only 
one representant of all chapters come to the meeting. Needless to say, 
this limitation is going to largely damage the ability of this meeting 
to build anything.
Are sub-chapters going to have one representant as well ?
If that's the case, I suspect that we will soon have to abandon this 
annual meeting altogether, and will have to replace it by "region" meetings.

Second, elections to board of trustees of WMF.
WMF has given the opportunity to chapters to elect two members to the 
board. However, it is not clear to me if subchapters will be included or 
not. Has this been decided ? Or will chapters be offered the opportunity 
to decide that by themselves ?

Ant

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> Is it like in "Animal farm" that all countries are equal but some are more
> equal then others? By calling NY a sub chapter, it is inherent that there is
> room for a USA chapter. Each chapter has one vote as I understand it or will
> each subchapter have one as well ??
> 
> Originally the notion of a chapter was very much that it was along the lines
> of legislatures. This no longer seems to be relevant or am I missing
> something?
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> 
> 2009/1/20 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>
> 
>> Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
>>> Hoi,
>>> So in essence by having a New York chapter, it became impossible to have
>> an
>>> USA chapter? Or do we need to propose an Amsterdam sub chapter that will
>> get
>>> all the trimmings like New York? The argument that the USA is so big is
>> not
>>> that strong either, we could have a Moscow sub chapter or one for Bombay.
>>> Thanks,
>>>       GerardM
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, having a New York chapter pretty ruled out the possibility of
>> establishing a USA chapter. But then, the USA chapter was discussed for
>> quite long time and it is quite unprobably that it would become true in
>> the near future. There are also suggestions that the WM-NYC could serve
>> as a seed and gradually expand its covering area at sometime to become a
>> WM-USA. But that's all speculations. We will see how everything develops.
>>
>> Again, from the view of fundation WM-NYC is not a "sub chapter" but a
>> wholevalue chapter. Its area doesn't covers a nation, but that doesn't
>> make it less or more than the chapters whose area cover a country. And
>> sub-national or cross-national chapters also may be established
>> somewhere else than USA, right.
>>
>> As far as I know, there are already two organizations in the
>> Netherlands, why would you want to create an Amsterdam chapter and what
>> is the beneficial of it? Or is the question just theoretical?
>>
>> Greetings
>> Ting
>>
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