Thank you for soliciting feedback and for your patience, Pine. I have responded at Meta and also ask others to weigh in.
Jason On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cascadians, > > The Affiliation Committee, in association with WMF Legal, has reversed > its previous approval of our proposed group name of Cascadia > Wikimedians. There appears to be a desire on their part to emphasize > within our legal name that we are a user group. Personally I am > frustrated by this change of opinion, I feel that this degree of > concern with group names is excessive, and I feel that groups should > have more autonomy in choosing their names since we are legally > independent of WMF. I hope to discuss these and other matters via a > Hangout conversation with the chair of the Affiliations Committee, and > preferably also with Stephen LaPorte and Asaf Bartov from WMF. Affcom > and WMF are aware of our frustration with the length of what should > have been a lightweight approval process for our group, and I have > made clear to Affcom and WMF that I believe that the user group > approval process has gone astray from the easy process that the WMF > Board intended. > > Our frustration aside, let us now discuss how we might agree on an > alternative group names. I have placed two options on Meta and voiced > my personal opinions, and I hope that other Cascadians will also > comment so that we can achieve consensus within about a week. Please > visit this link [1] to comment. > > Thank you, > > Pine > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cascadia_Wikimedians#User_group_name_discussion_with_Affiliation_Committee.2C_part_2 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia >
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