<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Henk Hoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toffehoff@gmail.com">toffehoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/22 Eugene Alvin Villar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com" target="_blank">seav80@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="im">
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<div><div> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>I very much prefer the local chapter structure adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Well, in that case the *individual* members cannot elect the boardmembers of the Foundation. And they also cannot votes on other major issues within the Foundation (e.g. the recent vote on license-change amongst members of the Foundation). The Wikimedia Foundation does not accept individual members....</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br><br>Yes, I know that WMF is not membership organization unlike OSM-F, but I am referring to the relationship between the WMF and its local chapters which is not predicated on whether WMF is a membership organization or not.<br>
<br><br>Eugene (osm:seav) <br></div></div>