On 27 September 2010 20:36, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
The most important harm which exists now is the fact that free knowledge activists from Kosovo are not included yet into the Wikimedia movement. So, until the situation becomes more clear, we should think how to solve that problem.
And we have tools to do that. Let's call them to internal-l (for example, to ask FLOSSK, as any WM chapter to delegate five members to the internal-l and chapters-l), let's treat their events as friendly ones (I was in Pristina, Gerard and Siebrand have already been at their event in Albania -- yes, free software and free knowledge activists from Kosovo are responsible for organizing those events in Albania -- but without WMF's official support), let's give to a couple of them scholarships for the next Wikimanias, etc.
So your proposal is basically to make the Kosovan group a recognised non-chapter group (like we're talking about doing with the Kansai group) and then "upgrade" them to chapter status at a later date if/when it is less contentious to do so? That could work.