Pine W, 11/10/2014 22:05:
4. 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_p…
, 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