On 27 September 2010 20:36, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > The most important harm which exists now is the fact that free > knowledge activists from Kosovo are not included yet into the > Wikimedia movement. So, until the situation becomes more clear, we > should think how to solve that problem. > > And we have tools to do that. Let's call them to internal-l (for > example, to ask FLOSSK, as any WM chapter to delegate five members to > the internal-l and chapters-l), let's treat their events as friendly > ones (I was in Pristina, Gerard and Siebrand have already been at > their event in Albania -- yes, free software and free knowledge > activists from Kosovo are responsible for organizing those events in > Albania -- but without WMF's official support), let's give to a couple > of them scholarships for the next Wikimanias, etc.
So your proposal is basically to make the Kosovan group a recognised non-chapter group (like we're talking about doing with the Kansai group) and then "upgrade" them to chapter status at a later date if/when it is less contentious to do so? That could work. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
