My two cents: no, no, no, absolutely not, by all means no, never.
I am strongly, strongly, strongly opposed to such a move. The chapters already elect two members of the Board, and that's quite enough. When it comes to matters concerning strategic direction chapters are the movement equivalent of a political interest group. The Board is the entity ultimately responsible for the funding reigns, and I strongly suspect that such a move, *especially given the weakness of community response in elections*, would immediately result in an influx of "chapter junkies" who will vote as a nearly-united political bloc for whatever candidate promises a freer flow of money.
The ramifications would be immediate. This is absolutely the wrongest possible direction to go in.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I think this is definitely worthy of discussion and I agree that either all employees of WMF affiliates should be permitted to vote or employee status should be removed as an element of eligibility. Hopefully the board and its electioneers will weigh in with their opinions. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe