@Jan-Bart One of the early discussions before agreeing the WCA charter was the possibility of automatically counting all legally recognized chapters as members. It was felt that this would not result in a credible democratic process, indeed the current 21 members are not all very active in votes and the current voting pattern shows participation at around 2/3 of the members or less in any vote. If we counted all Chapters, then a quorum would have to be set to be artificially low.<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/2012_votes>
Should any Chapter wish to vote in this election, they need only provide a statement to me and then the new Council member sends in a statement that they support the charter. The Council member need not be on the board of the Chapter. There are no fees, there are no specific duties and we are always looking for more light-weight ways of handing our processes. Any Council member recognized before the vote opens, will be eligible to vote. @Newyorkbrad My original thought was to allow an overall three week process, but was put under pressure to do this quickly to make a clear demonstration that I was going; however I would guess that opening the election does this rather than bringing forward the deadline to close it. I will take a look at the schedule again later today and reconsider the deadlines. In practice, I have had the opposite feedback from Council members, who thought that allowing 2 weeks for a vote as our past custom, was unnecessarily long. Thanks, Fae -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Chapters Association Council Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
