2012/2/2 Oliver Keyes <[email protected]>: > Oh, agreed. But what I'm interested in is not "should be", but whether the > rhetoric in internal chapter elections is usually dominated by, or even > includes, mention of the wider governance issues. > > I think chapters have a crucial role to play in movement governance, and > that trustees of each chapter should be at the forefront of that. But are > they selected with that role in mind?
Well, for WM-IT all assemblies are open to public and we always tried to have them at least audio-streamed if we technically could (but that would be in Italian, though). Anyway, from the results of the least chapter and community seats election my opinion is that the former are *waaaayyy* more en.wiki-centered than the first. I am surely highly biased, but I think people in the chapters having to confront with their local reality (here included local legislation), with the WMF and the communities of the projects (for events, meetups, etc.) have more opportunities to gain a "global governance" perspective than others. Both in the sense of the whole "Wikimedia world" from editors up to the WMF staff and the WMF Board, but also in the sense of a better perception of the diversity of the conditions and characteristics of the different parts of the Wikimedia movement around the world. Cristian WM-IT _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
