I'm still inclined to do this regionally, even if we only agree on one candidate, for example.  If we want to even think of ourselves as being a viable grouping of Asian chapters, we need to go beyond this national mode of thinking and start looking at things from a broader perspective.

As it is, even people in the region think the idea of Wikimedia Asia is but that: an idea.  We should at least try to prove them wrong.

Josh

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From: "Deryck Chan" <deryckchan@wikimedia.hk>
To: "Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination" <wikimedia-asia-chapters@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Chapter selected board seat
Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 1:26 pm


On 8 April 2012 23:01, Siska Doviana <siska.doviana@wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> The main difference between us and Iberocoop is that culturally we're a much
> more diverse bunch then them, therefore within the Wikimedia sphere our
> interests are less aligned with each other than they.

I completely agree, that's why I suggested to go as individual
chapters as another option.

> With neither Craig nor Theo putting representing and developing Asian
> Wikimedian communities as their main agendum (correct me if I'm wrong),
> coordinated voting between Asian chapters is probably not in the best
> interests of individual chapters among us.

But then again what the point of having this list if we keep
separating each other? For fun? * it might work too IMHO *

We all know that - to help us talk to each other, and investigate the possibility of cooperating. If we decide to join up, great. But even if we decide to go separate ways, it's good that we've talked to each other and have come to that conclusion.
 

So? One (HK) say we have to go individually for the chapter's best
interest, another (India) said we should do this regionally, how about
others?

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