2009/1/20 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hoi, >> What I said was that the NY chapter prevents an USA chapter. It would be >> obvious to have one such. With one in place, you can organise to your hearts >> content wherever you like. >> Thanks, > > Two answers to this question: > 1) WMNYC does prevent the creation of a separate WMUSA chapter. At the > moment the rule-of-thumb is that chapters cannot overlap. However, it > may be possible in the future if both groups agree to share space, but > we haven't had an issue like that and I can't imagine the benefit of > doing it that way. > 2) It is possible that as participation grows, maybe WMNYC could grow > to become WMUSA over time. Maybe there are several sub-national > chapters that combine together to form a single national chapter, or > maybe the one chapter grows slowly to encompass more area. These are > just speculative possibilities, but it's worth noting that > sub-national chapters have these kinds of options.
3) The various sub-national USA chapters could form a union/federation of chapters. They remain independent chapters, but have a structure in place to enable them to work together effectively. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l