On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, one benefit would be that it avoids strange definitions of >> chapter boundaries. Suppose that we have a Los Angeles chapter and a >> Monterey County chapter, and then people from San Jose, Sacramento and >> a few smaller cities come together to make a chapter, would this then >> be "Wikimedia California except Los Angeles City and Monterey County"? >> Or should it perhaps also be restricted to not include San Francisco, >> since perhaps there will be a city chapter there, and created the >> "California-except" chapter would make such impossible? > > 5 Friends and their dog cannot make a chapter. To become a chapter, > you need to have critical mass: You need enough people to form a > board, you need possible members. You need to be able to raise money, > and you need to be able to perform activities. If we have a situation > where there are enough Wikimedians in Scramento, Los Angeles, and San > Jose to each form chapters, we should consider ourselves to be very > lucky. More likely, to build the critical mass necessary to start a > new chapter, Wikimedians from all these places may need to work > together instead of working apart. The smaller the geographical area > is, the fewer potential members you have, the less money you are > likely to be able to raise, and the fewer outreach activities you will > have available to you.
That doesn't change my point, it's just a matter of scale... Suppose there's a chapter in Georgia, and one for Kentucky and Tennessee. Then some people come around and start on a chapter for the southeast. That's going to be a quite strange assortment of states they're going to represent. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l