Pine W, 11/10/2014 22:05:
- We in Cascadia Wikimedians (and I imagine other thematic organizations)
have our own timelines that we need to deal with, and needing to wait indefinitely for Affcom and Legal to make decisions [...]
a) Be aware it's impossible to understant what you're talking about. [[Cascadian Wikimedians]] states you are already a user group and I see a row in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Chapters_in_discussion_ph... , so I guess you're talking of recognition as a chapter. However, given that you don't seem to be keeping your row in this table up to date, I'm having difficulties understand.
makes planning difficult on our end. Also, we are losing organizational momentum while we wait. Momentum is important for the creation of organizations, and possibly for their survival. It would be a disappointment to have groups such as ours lose volunteer interest and partnership opportunities because of delays such as those that we are experiencing.
b) All very true. however, assuming guess (a) is correct, let me remind the WMF board has established that becoming a chapter must now be at very least a 2 years marathon. I suggest that you don't hold your breath and keep plenty of water reserves, otherwise rather than exhaustion you'll risk collapses and heart attacks.
Nemo