Hello FT2, as members of a chapter, people already can decide about the consistence of the WMF board - at least, indirectly. I mean the general principle that someone pays and can vote, it's not so strange. But I concede that we would then have to ask ourselves how much money is equivalent to what number of edits... Ziko
2011/3/20 FT2 <[email protected]>: > That's a different possible category. Should people who do not have capacity > to vote as editors, but are paid-up members of a chapter, be able to vote in > that capacity? (Alternatively, are chapter members' voting rights and > involvement limited to the chapter if they haven't taken part in any wider > activity?) > > I don't have a problem with it, provided their membership is long enough (6+ > months?) before the election. > > There are probably good arguments both ways. A lot depends on personal > philosophy: whether you see the foundation and chapters, as effectively > different arms of the same thing or as distinct. For example, if they are > "different arms of the same thing" then there would be commonsense reasons > to share donor lists (as John Vandenberg raises) as there is no reason why 2 > parts of the same project would withold information from each other. If they > are distinct then paying membership to one may not lead to voting franchise > for the board of the other. There's considerable philosophy here that > spreads far beyond the election, it may be better to discuss it before it's > a problem in any way while it's fresh and malleable, but the board election > isn't really the context to do so. > > FT2 > > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Not so quick - I am paying fees, for Wikimedia Nederland and Wikimedia >> Deutschland. Would you say that they are not Wikimedia?`:-) >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
