Hi, I read Delphines call for interest in joining the chapters committe, and hereby declare my interest to join I am 59 years of age, now retired, and have a background in IT since 1968, working as a consultant and at Ericsson. At Ericsson I was a senior manager (development) and have experience from a multitute of global projects. The last years I worked in the HQ technical staff, where I got experience from working in international standard committes, and I also worked with something we called the Internet Intitiatve, which made me updated in all buzz at the turn of the centrury and got me a network in Sweden with all key players in the Internet business. I am very analytical and used of achieving results, by being listening. I am good at English, being married to an Australian, which in part in my writing is offset by a developing smaller dyslexia I am a strong beleiver in Wikimedia, and in this concept I beleive it is necessary with strong Local Chapters, that can contribute to the common whole both finansially and by strong local initiaitves. My feeling after following the discussions on the internal the last two weeks, is that a redefinition of the relation between (strong) Local chapters and WMF will be a major issue in 2008. As I am interested and experienced in these type of organisational structural issues I am very interested to be part in this development. Without having legal education I am used of reading legal document, and see myself competent in digesting and understanding bylaws Anders Wennersten Treasurer in Wikimedia Sverige ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Chaptercommittee-l mailing list Chaptercommittee-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/chaptercommittee-l