On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Chapters historically came into existence to (1) process donations in > local currency and (2) deal with local legal issues > I would say it is more (3) provide an organization that could handle local partnerships and communication: with content and promotion and other targeted projects. The sort of thing that the WMF explicitly leaves to other entities, by virtue of not accepting targeted donations. > * The difficulty of forming a chapter that doesn't conform to legal > borders has caused tension in recent years > This was feared but has not been true in practice. (It was an issue of forming an incorporated entity, period, not specific to a chapter.) > * The WMF Board and many in the community are aware and concerned about > this > Not sure... concerned about what here? The explicit recognition of other entities was to avoid forcing groups into a narrow mould in order to be recognized as a stable part of the movement. It wasn't in response to issues with geographic groups that weren't national; it was in to recognize the majority of groups that are not geographic at all. > * The general solution is not so much to adapt the Chapter model to fit > other cases, as to establish that other cases are fine *without* carrying > the name "chapter". > > The Wikimedia movement has a new approach to funds dissemination; being a > chapter is not the only way to get grants or put the name "Wikipedia" (or > "Wikimedia" etc.) to good use. > Yes. In other words, just because the CHAPTERS committee > There is no longer a chapters committee; it is now the Affiliations Committee :) And please don't judge what they /might/ think; just ask them. SJ
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