On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Fae <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > @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. > > Err .... ok, I'm sorry but this actually moves to the realms of scary. You require the new Council member to send in a statement ... pledging loyalty essentially? I don't see anything in the charter that would require something like that, is it in your remit as chair? Sadly that just sounds like a way to force out reformers, if you don't support the charter you can't join the council? How do you expect to get things to change when necessary? James _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l