On 27 September 2010 20:36, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)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.