Dear Pine,
Please accept my apologies on this delay. Tanvir is taking care of personal matters, so
probably that's why he hasn't got back to you. We'll make sure you guys get an
answer before Sunday evening.
Again, please accept our apologies for the delay. Oh, and no need to CC Asaf, he's
already in the AffCom mailing list :-)
Regards,
Carlos
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12/09/2014 09:20 (GMT+02:00)
To: Affiliations Committee
<affcom@lists.wikimedia.org>,abartov@wikimedia.org,Wikimedia Cascadia mailing list
<wikimedia-cascadia(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,Tanvir Rahman <wikitanvir(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [AffCom] Affcom application status
Dear Affcom, Tanvir, and Asaf,
We answered Affcom's last question to us about the proposed Cascadia Wikimedians group
on August 7th, over a month ago. I have attempted to contact Affcom a number of times to
check on the status of our application, but the last information that I received was on
August 17th, which was over 3 weeks ago. We have projects that we want to do but we are
waiting for Affcom approval before we launch them. This is a busy time of year here in
Cascadia and I feel it is important that we get ourselves launched as soon as possible. We
had anticipated receiving approval from you before now. We would appreciate an update
about when we can expect to hear from you about the status of our application.
Also, are we allowed to set up social media accounts using the Cascadia Wikimedians name
while we wait for your approval? We would like to use social media to recruit and
coordinate for our events, and I have heard that other thematic organizations have done
this prior to receiving recognition from Affcom.
My understanding is that user groups are intended by the WMF Board to be lightweight and
easy to set up. The amount of time that this approval process is taking is problematic for
us here in Cascadia, and the lack of communication and a clear timeframe for approval are
also making it difficult for us to have the impact that we would like to have.
Thank you,
Pine
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Hello Pine, and others
I'm sorry for the delays. I incapable of work due to my laptop porblems and
also real life matters.
However I want to assure you that everything will be done in the timeline
as Carlos mentioned above.
Please accept my apologies.
T.