[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

[Ziko van Dijk]

Not so quick - I am paying fees, for Wikimedia Nederland and Wikimedia
Deutschland. Would you say that they are not Wikimedia?`:-)
Kind regards
Ziko


2011/3/20 marcos <tal_tor9 at yahoo.es>:
> I think  Wikimedia is not a club , and there's no fee for collaborating in its development. There is a difference, it seems to me, between a "fee" and  a "donation". I believe that FT 2 has explain it better than I. ;-)
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> Marcos (aka Marctaltor)
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> --- El dom, 20/3/11, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> escribió:
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> De: Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>
> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed
> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Fecha: domingo, 20 de marzo, 2011 14:28
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> 2011/3/20 marcos <tal_tor9 at yahoo.es>:
>> I agree with FT2. Give right to vote to the donors looks like a bad idea, for several reasons, especially because it is not good for a charitable entity that its donors have the possibility of deciding its future policy ...
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>
> Hm, it is actually very common that those who pay a fee have voting
> rights, we usually call them "members". :-)
>
> I understand well that those who already have voting rights are
> reluctant to extend them to other people. The ideas of the election
> committee deserve more consideration. If donors can vote isn't that
> similar to a membership the Foundation had planned in its very
> beginning?
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
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