At 13:35 +0000 3/12/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
[...] > I don't see how you can disenfranchise 90% of the >membership just for convenience, it goes completely against the >democratic ideals of the chapter. > >> I believe most people would want to be a "friend" rather than a >> "member", and I mean "member" in the technical sense of "guarantor >> member". > >At this point, you're just guessing. The lists of people interested in >being guarantor and supporting members were pretty similar in length. > [...] I am sure there is some guesswork here. And yes, I agree, WMUK must be democratic. I am trying to suggest that making every "supporting member" become a guarantor member (or become nothing) might not be the best way forward. Regards, Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
