On 1 Mar 2013, at 23:22, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2013 11:07 PM, "Michael Peel" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Asaf, >> >> I note that the WMF's recognition decision here was recorded at >> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Kenya >> >> Please could you confirm that WM Kenya didn't sign the chapter's > agreement before 6 Feb 2013? >> >> I'm rather surprised to hear that they're being encouraged to incorporate > and affiliate as a user group rather than as a chapter - please could you > explain the rationale here? > > Have you read the email to the Kenyan list? I think it explains the > situation quite well. > > They haven't incorporated, which was a condition of the provisional chapter > status. It sounds like the wmf thinks the kind of things they want to do > are better suited to a user group than a chapter. I don't know enough about > the Kenyan group to know if that is true, but other models of affiliation > were created precisely because chapters are the right solution for every > situation. Yes, I had read the email to the Kenyan list. My questions took that email into account. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
