Thomas Dalton wrote: > While that is true, it is also important to remember that most people > setting up a chapter have next to no experience of running a > non-profit. They don't know what is and isn't appropriate to spend > donations on, they don't necessarily know what needs to done and just > because they know their culture in general doesn't mean they know how > the charity sector works in their country. The Foundation could > provide a lot of advice on those issues. While I don't doubt that the > Portuguese Wikimedians are acting in good faith, trust requires two > things - good faith and competence. They are almost certainly not > competent since they haven't had an opportunity to develop that > competence yet, so they should not be trusted to be making the right > decisions.
I think this is very rude. Why do you assume that people wanting to create a Wikimedia chapter are incompetent? You need to have a bit more trust for people you have never met and you don't know. Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l