[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

Tue Apr 29 12:23:39 UTC 2008

Samuel Henderson wrote:
> B. Decided to change the definition of "community seat" to include seats
> appointed by third parties (the chapters, of which a vanishingly small
> minority of editors are members), so as to make it appear that the principle
> of a community majority was still being followed.

"so as to make it appear"

> But "B," frankly, makes my blood boil.  I find it hard to believe that
> anyone above the age of 4 would be expected to fall for this kind of ploy.

"ploy"

I can assure you that none of that bad-faith understanding of this is valid.

 > In this regard, I
> sincerely hope that I and others have misinterpreted a substantial part of
> this discussion.

I believe that you have.

The board believes that the chapter mechanism is working and workable 
and should be supported and expanded.  It provides for an excellent and 
formal means for extending community control of the projects and of the 
future direction of the Foundation, with some interesting and useful 
advantages over on-wiki election... and some interesting disadvantages 
as well.

But there is absolutely no sense in interpreting this as some kind of 
removal of power from the community.

--Jimbo