[Foundation-l] Chapters

[Jimmy Wales]

On 8/10/11 8:56 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but where has it been suggested that chapters
> would not remain free to raise funds independently of the WMF?  My
> impression was that the change being discussed here would merely remove
> participation in the WMF fundraiser as a funding source and replace it with
> direct WMF grants; presumably chapters could seek funding elsewhere?

That's right, but the reality is that using the website wikipedia.org is 
the single overwhelming source of funds available to chapters, and very 
little is likely to change about that anytime soon.