Would be nice to see feasibility checks before outsourcing some tasks to chapters to make sure they are prepared for the task.
Cheers, Balazs
2013/8/26 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com
Hi Romaine,
In the absence of any practical description of what an office on each populated continent would do, or what concrete organizational role it would fulfill (other than "bringing communities together"), it seems unlikely that the WMF is going to immediately reverse its relatively recent decision to follow a strategy directly contrary to what you propose. The model that Quim outlines makes much more sense; the work of the movement can be dispersed more naturally when stakeholders take on projects and initiatives that the WMF can support with grant funding. These projects have evidently had far and away more success than either "general funding" of WMF affiliates or expanding the WMF itself into far-away lands.
~Nate
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