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

[Samuel Klein]

On 2/2/12, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> We're getting very off topic, but you are right that there is a problem
> with dormant chapters. I know nothing about the Russian chapter, but I do
> know how difficult it was to to get the first Wikimedia UK out of the way.
>
> Perhaps the WMF board should ask ChapCom to advise them on what chapters
> are inactive or insufficiently open. The board can then give them a year to
> improve or hold new, open elections and remove their chapter status if they
> don't.

This was on the agenda of this weekend's Board meeting, and we plan to
ask ChapCom for exactly this.

This sort of feedback should be easy and frequent across the movement
- not only chapters, but also the WMF, global committees, and other
movement groups or major initiatives, would all benefit from regular
self-assessment and feedback on their activity and transparency.

Sam