I agree that Affcom, as well as WMF, could do more to support affiliates in all stages of development. However, the subject of this thread is the criteria for chapter and thematic organization status.
Chapter or thematic organization status comes with some privelidges like the right to vote for affiliate-elected WMF board seats, and the right to send 2 to 4 delegates to the Wikimedia Conference unlike the 1 delegate allowed per user group. With the privelidges should come some responsibilities, like meeting the criteria for chapter or thematic org status on an ongoing basis. As an organization that may want to become a chapter someday, Cascadia Wikimedians needs clarity and specificity about the criteria for chapter status. I ask AffCom to keep this in mind as it continues to consider and develop the criteria for chapter and thematic org status. Pine _______________________________________________ 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>
