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. ;-) Marcos (aka Marctaltor)
--- El dom, 20/3/11, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com> escribió: De: Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Fecha: domingo, 20 de marzo, 2011 14:28 2011/3/20 marcos <tal_t...@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 ... > 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 -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
