Just an outside thought on this - and you know, being a Canadian and
all...
At the very least you will have a fantastic inter-chapter
communications network in place. This is a huge jump ahead. If you
take a historical look at so many other local chapters that started
way in advance of 'national' movements (health awareness groups are
the best example) it generally took years to get coordinated across
provinces and to develop national policies/frameworks. Seems like
Canada is in good position to at least have all of the chapters
develop within a consistent national framework, always stay in
communication, and have healthy annual get-togethers.
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On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Andrew Leung wrote:
> Sorry for not able to reply these series of emails earlier. I was
> out of reach for 2 days with Ministry of the Environment to catch
> some fish in Perry Sound and Huntsville. The experience was great,
> we caught various kinds of trophy fish like Lake Trout, Northern
> Pike, Smallmouth Bass and other species with our gill-nets. In
> Ontario, don't try using gill-nets when you fish, cause we got
> permit to take as many fish we need even if the size of the fish is
> too small and the law forces you to catch & release, because we need
> to take them to do contamination analysis. Having a small sample
> size won't help with getting accurate results.
>
> Anyhow, back to topic, I think the first step should be first
> establishing local chapters, then work our way up to national chapter.
>
>
> Andrew
>
> "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
>
>
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:47:46 -0400
> From: fastalan@gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-ca@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Hello?
>
> My point is that you need to find a group of people who are able to
> meet in person to work in support of the common goal, whatever it
> may be.
>
> 2008/9/24 Kevin T
ktsquare@gmail.com
> So the long term goal would be moving towards keeping members of WM-
> CA together than deciding distinctively city vs national?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Alan Walker
fastalan@gmail.com
> wrote:
> We made a great deal of progress in our goal of establishing a
> Wikimedia Canada. However, I must now agree with our Australian
> counterparts that it is quite difficult to complete the goal without
> local face to face meetings. We had conducted voice meetings on
> Teamspeak which were more helpful than IRC, but the lack of real
> life contact I think cost us our momentum. In respect to City vs
> national, I think establishing any in person meeting would be a lot
> better for the cause. I wouldn't trouble myself too much with city
> vs national, but how one can find at least 6 people who are willing
> to meet in person on a regular basis to get it done.
>
> 2008/9/24
mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm
>
> Sue actually foreshadowed this development in an interview she gave
> at Wikimania: "We also know that, for example in the United States,
> there is no United States chapter – there can't be, it's too big of
> a country. Arguably there won't be a Canadian chapter either, for
> the same reason, right? Because to the extent that chapters are
> about bringing people together and nurturing community face-to-face,
> they just can't - Vancouver and Toronto just aren't gonna get
> together, you know, for meetings and things." And I can agree with
> that sentiment. Part of my reluctance to get involved is that
> there's basically zero chance of me travelling to be involved in
> this. Unfortunately, regional chapters don't help me either as
> there's nobody nearby, AFAIK. However for the organization as a
> whole, it is worth pursuing regional or city chapters, I think.
>
> Mike
>
> From: Padraic Ryan [mailto:padraic.j.ryan@gmail.com]
> Sent: September 23, 2008 10:10 PM
> To: Wikimedia Canada planning list
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-Canada] Hello?
>
> On that note, I'll just chip in that I think city-based chapters
> would be a lot better for Canada, given the distances involved. I'd
> be interested in putting together Wikimedia Toronto.
>
> P
> 2008/9/23 wayne
cpa@sympatico.ca
> At 04:09 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote:
> >I read this message on IRC just now, seems like a valid question. :-)
> >
> ><yannf> hello
> ><yannf> what's the situation with WM-ca?
>
> I advertized to start a London Ontario Chapter or a discussion group
> and got no responses in this town. I will try again though
>
> Wayne Ray
>
>
http://wayneray.ca
>
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