Hoi, When the only reason why chapters cannot overlap is because of a fear that a commercial organisation plays one chapter against another, I fail to agree that this is a good reason. Obviously chapters are involved in such negotiations, that is not the point.
I am quite ok with chapters being different. What I fail to understand is what it is that chapters are expected to do. Let me sketch a scenario. A Dutch group wants their chapter only to be a society while another group wants to organise things engage in dialogue with archives, musea. These two visions are worlds apart. When you are unlucky you end up with a fight. When both groups can do their thing, there is no need for this. When the WMF prohibits two organisations, it will be a recurring fight. Thanks, GerardM 2009/1/20 Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Hoi, > > So the only reason why chapters cannot overlap is possible commercial > > nastiness ???? Does the NYC have a license to negotiate as much as > another > > USA (sub)-chapter have. > Yes, inside their own areas. > > > What is left for the Wikimedia Foundation itself ? > > > Why, the WMF has enough things to do, and in my opinion can still do more. > > But what the WMF don't want to be is very clear it doesn't want to be a > USA-chapter. > > How do you make commercial organisations split along "our" lines ? > > > I don't quite understand this question. The german chapter for example > had long doing commercials in Germany if you will. > > As I learn more about chapters, I come to my conclusion that they are a > > confused hodgepodge of conflicting ideas. The notion what the essence of > a > > chapter is is no longer clear at all. I would really LOVE some clear > > structured text that explains the notion of the chapter and explains what > > its responsibilities are. > > > Gerard, the world is not a unity (may I say thank Gods for that?). What > works in Germany may not work in Taiwan, may not even work in France or > the Netherlands. As someone had already pointed out in this thread, the > french chapter is very different as the german. So, there would be NO > clear definition of how a standard chapter should look like. The ChapCom > has a set of criterias before it would recommend an organisation to the > board as a chapter. That's it mainly. > > Greetings > Ting > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l