--- Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
That was my first thought, too, but I don't think this direction is necessarily right. First of all, you end up with another legal body with another to-be-(s)elected group of representatives: more bureaucracy. More importantly, cooperations between chapters are likely going to be an "ad hoc" thing:
- "Let's have an Eastern Europe meeting."
- "Let's cooperate between DE and AT for a media campaign."
- "Let's start a metadata project for digitized documents in Croatian
and Serbian."
- "Let's approach a Commonwealth organization for a grant."
Good point for things like a Wikimedia Balkans (where no nation or nation-like body exists that covers that area), but I don't agree for things like a Wikimedia Europa, where a such a body does exist (a confederation of nations that is growing closer together and has many laws and representatives of its own). But in reality, this is up to a combination of popular support in various areas and what the board will allow as an *official* chapter.
-- mav
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