Dear everyone,
I want to clear few things myself. As Shabab bhai said earlier, we have been trying to form our local chapter for almost two years. If I remember that correctly, last time, we have discussed that in October 2009. We met in our fifth Dhaka meet-up [1]. We discussed about forming the chapter there, we participated in many IRC meetings on #wikimedia-bd channel. I, myself was in that process. We talked about preparing the MoA, and some necessary stuffs to create the chapter. We did not discuss about chapter set-up committee in our mailing list that time either. We created the team with the persons who participated in that meet-up. We just assumed good faith that those people who attended in that meet-up, and sacrificed their money and time, were the really interested ones. But unfortunately that effort did not work.
But this time, we have given this process a real kick-start at least, and what we really did here? We just formed a little team of interested persons to work in this process. If any of you think this team is the so called “authority”, then no, it's clearly not like that. As everybody said here, real authority will be elected by the community members. And as of now, we have done only two things:
a) We have prepared the “draft” Memorandum of Association of our organization.
b) We contacted to chapters committee, and told them we are interested to form the chapter this time. This is just one step ahead; we stepped up to planned chapter from a chapter in discussion phase [2].
None of them is no big deal. Actually, this is some boring paper works. And very few people are interested in this kind of stuffs.
And if you are thinking about autocracy, then I have to say, every chapter or organization has an approved bylaws (for any legal purpose), and every member of that organization (including office bearers and board members) have to maintain that. This is not optional. It's obvious.
As Tonmoy bhai and Austin has said above, I think you all better discuss here about the only real ting we have really done so far, the bylaws. If you have any disagreement or comment or just a wishful feedback on that, please share this here with us.
Regards,
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Tanvir Rahman
http://bit.ly/wikitanvir
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dhaka/Dhaka5
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Planned_chapters