On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevre...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > And I am not sure that creating a membership model within a group of approved > chapters (who have therefore already passed the AffCom test) can be described > as a "democratic model". You are creating an preferred status. You could > argue that it is much more democratic to give all the approved organisations > a vote. After all the Chapters Association intends to help all chapters with > the exchange of knowledge of skills… regardless of wether they are a member > or not (that was the last status I heard). > > Jan-Bart That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the WCA is an activity chapters can choose to participate in, or choose not to. To the extent the WCA intends to "represent" its members, that representation should be restricted to those chapters which have specifically opted-in. I don't think an opt-out approach to membership is ideal, at least for now. The model of voting delegates the casting of votes to members of the council; which are individuals, chosen by chapters. Purely from a practical perspective, it may not be possible for chapters to get council members in order by the deadline for this vote if they are not already members. Additionally, it's important to distinguish in voting between chapters abstaining and chapters simply not participating. Choosing to be a member, while not exercising a vote, is effectively assent to the outcome. This is not the case for those chapters which have chosen not to join the WCA. ~Nathan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
