Hoi,
The United States is not singular in its size, its diversity, the number of
people. Arguably India, Brazil and Russia compare.
The one difference the USA has is its historic attention from the WMF in
every aspect of its operations. Arguably, the WMF has performed many of
what would be expected of a USA chapter without any of the administrative,
democratic or other requirements that a chapter has.
When the USA has its own WMF chapter, it is no longer an automatic given
what the WMF may do in the USA and THAT would end much of the
discrimination that is taking place.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 June 2015 at 08:07, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ricordisamoa, I have no preference either way. I live in a geographically
> > enormous country (Canada), which has a national chapter - centered so far
> > away from me that I'll never be in a position to participate in person
> at a
> > regular meetup. In Canada's case, regional chapters might have been
> better,
> > and I wonder about other geographically large countries where this would
> > also be more workable.
> >
> > Risker
>
>
>
> The United States is so big, and the population so propagated amongst its
> size, that a cohesive US chapter is pretty much impossible. Despite the
> size of our movement, it's still very small by regional breakdown and the
> economics of travel for support just don't match up. I've attended a few
> meetups in the US, and I had to travel significant distance to do so only
> to have a maximum turnout of a few dozen. That was a DC meetup in which I
> flew in from the southern US and met with Risker - coming from Canada - at
> the airport to attend a meetup that was 40 strong with half of the people
> not being from DC. And that took significant planning.
>
> Ultimately, a US chapter would fail not because of passion, but simple
> logistics.
>
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