On 3 September 2011 19:22, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
> On 09/03/11 4:06 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > > Just a bit of different perspective: I could make a list of chapters, > > besides WM RS, which would be happy to get a representative from WMF > > (but from any other bigger chapter, as well) in their Board, if that > > means that the representative would really do something. > > > > For a number of chapters it is not a matter of having influence from > > any other entity, but a matter of getting one person capable to help > > chapter. > > > > So it's not really a question of having someone on their Board. And > it's not a question of a person who must be from the WMF. A person > helping from another chapter would do just as well, and that would not > raise apprehensions about being under a head office thumb. The helper > would not need to be mentioned in any by-laws. His task would be to > help the chapter for a predetermined amount of with whatever tasks were > agreed to between the two chapters. The donor chapter could even > continue to pay his salary. if he were an employee. > > I suspect what you're talking about is an ex-officio member of the board, with no voting privileges. That makes a bit more sense to me. On the whole, I think Anthere's post explaining the conflict of interest issues that arise from having WMF staff/board members sitting as Chapter board members as well is quite accurate. (I'm not as sure as she about the WMF's intentions toward chapters; I have a feeling they've not really figured out their own vision of chapters, which makes things more confusing for everyone.) Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
