[Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

[Thomas Dalton]

On 1 February 2012 22:17, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is well and good, but it gives the impression that the current three
> elected members of the board are somehow considered not representative of
> the movement, and that the opaque selection and appointment process for the
> "chapter" seats is somehow more representative of the movement.  It
> concerns me a lot that the 97% of active Wikimedians who are not chapter
> members seem to not be considered part of the movement.

I didn't get that impression at all.

The board doesn't just need to be representative of the community. It
also needs to be capable of running the WMF as well as possible. We
need to balance those two goals. Having a couple of chapter-selected
seats is a good way of doing that.