Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> [...] >>> The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think >>> it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few >>> poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the >>> community as members of the chapters. There are other global >>> non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation >>> of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.)
>> Why? What's broken at the moment? The servers are running, >> and I really cannot see how a different form of organization >> would have any favourable impact on a few million people >> writing the best free encyclopedia (*1) in this solar sys- >> tem. Not to speak of this thing with the sum of all know- >> ledge being shared by every single human being. > I think most people want the WMF to do more than just keep the servers > running, though. It is the extra stuff that depends on good > governance. I did not ask what you think other people want, I asked what you think is broken at the moment and how that could be mended by another form of organization. Tim _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
