On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
What I said was that the NY chapter prevents an USA chapter. It would be
obvious to have one such. With one in place, you can organise to your hearts
content wherever you like.
Thanks,
Two answers to this question:
1) WMNYC does prevent the creation of a separate WMUSA chapter. At the
moment the rule-of-thumb is that chapters cannot overlap. However, it
may be possible in the future if both groups agree to share space, but
we haven't had an issue like that and I can't imagine the benefit of
doing it that way.
2) It is possible that as participation grows, maybe WMNYC could grow
to become WMUSA over time. Maybe there are several sub-national
chapters that combine together to form a single national chapter, or
maybe the one chapter grows slowly to encompass more area. These are
just speculative possibilities, but it's worth noting that
sub-national chapters have these kinds of options.
--Andrew Whitworth