On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ad Huikeshoven <ad(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
B) Another way would be to use securepoll to (s)elect
a number of people in
a specific country by active editors in that country to accept certain
representative roles, for example in two way communication between
foundation and community about technology changes, but also to oversee
processes to recruit new editors and onboard them. I imagine a (s)election
process like the (s)election of community (s)elected BoT members, however
with voters restricted to editors who are active in that country based on
geo-ip. Maybe some countries are so big, that it would be wiser to do this
at state level.
yup, that's effectively the idea of volunteer community liaisons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pundit/liaisons>, I've been trying to
discuss for a while (in Mexico, Luis was quite receptive, but
understandably in the following months the idea did not receive the highest
priority).
dj