Austin Hair wrote: > Every chapter has unique > considerations specific to its social and political circumstances—be > it Taiwan, Serbia, Hong Kong, or New York City—but, as far as we're > concerned, there's no such thing as a second-class chapter.
Speaking only for myself as one board member among many, I agree with Austin completely. There can be "subnational chapters" - meaning that the chapter is concentrated on a region smaller than a nation-state, but they are not 'sub-chapters'. The New York City metropolitan area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area has 18.8 million people. This is slightly larger than the Netherlands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands at 16.4 million. The world is not necessarily carved up geopolitically in a manner that would make it at all make sense to declare one nation/one chapter. It's a subtle matter with many factors that have to be thoughtfully balanced. --Jimbo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l