On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Besides the fact that this is obviously within the job description of Sue to determine (this is one of the things that the community has no say in of course, and rightfully) I also want to state that it is weird that you apperently feel such a need for the US, but not for Japan, China, Africa or Russia, which, imho, have much larger cultural and legal differences with Europe then the US...
The WMF is effectively legally managing the role of a "US chapter" already, by administering all of the trademarks in this country, etc.
I believe it would be appropriate to them to manage a "virtual chapter" also, under the person of a "Wikimedia US Affiliates Coordinator", which would represent the various Wikimedians active on-the-ground.
Possibly in the very long term "Wikimedia US" might be incorporated separately, but it would seem like a great waste of energies to establish a whole separate organization at this point.
Thanks, Pharos