Hi, sorry for top posting. A quick historical note, really early on some chapters had a WMF representative with a lot of power. We moved from that next to a lawyer recommandation as it created legal links between WMF and chapters hence increasing the legal risks for all the organizations and the safety/sustainability of the whole movement.
If the issue is communication between WMF and chapters there used to be a position at the foundation dedicated to this very purpose, the chapter coordinator. Perhaps it is time to revive this position. Christophe Envoye depuis mon Blackberry -----Original Message----- From: Jimmy Wales <jwa...@wikia-inc.com> Sender: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:37:42 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List<foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Brasil + WMF On 8/28/11 1:00 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > I think that developing such a legal entity should be a high priority > for Brazilian Wikipedians to ensure that Wiki activities in Brazil are > controlled by Brazilians. At the same time I don't think there is any > value to having a WMF appointee on your board; such a person would find > it difficult to function under circumstances of perpetual conflict of > interest. No other chapter has such a clause. I had never thought of this before, but now that it has been mentioned, I just wanted to disagree, quite respectfully because Ray is awesome of course, and say that I think it is a very interesting idea to have a WMF appointee on the boards of chapters. There should be very few cases where there is a "conflict of interest" since chapters and the Foundation are deeply tied together always (and that's a good thing). I think having a Foundation representative on the board of chapters does present some possibly insurmountable logistical issues (who will they be?) but I actually think such an arrangement might be incredibly valuable for improving communication and *decreasing* perceived conflicts of interest. --Jimbo _______________________________________________ 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
