On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sarah, if the volunteer community was organised and had its own, functional > representative body that had the community's trust and respect, that would, > to some degree, correct the present asymmetry between us and the WMF. > > Our only rights in relation to them are to fork or leave. While we are > atomised, the latter is our only option. Organised, forking becomes a > serious possibility. Of course, I hope it never comes to that. But without > that possibility, we are in the position of just having to take whatever > from the WMF - good and bad. > > Anthony Cole > > Anthony, I do agree that the community should organize. I would prefer to see the Foundation become a membership organization with different bylaws so that we are actually electing the trustees. A separate body would be good, although the Board could ignore that body too if it wanted. But yes, any kind of organizing is better than the present situation. Sarah _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
