2008/5/4, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com:
--- On Sun, 5/4/08, Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net wrote:
From: Henning Schlottmann h.schlottmann@gmx.net Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Chapter-selected Board seats - brainstorming To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:24 AM
Chapters can handle donations, press contacts, organize larger events and so on. Some of that needs a core team at a certain place, most of the jobs are not connected with the geographic placements of active members.
Since all of this is handled in the US, why do people expect us to waste our time on bureaucracy of setting up a chapter?
Birgitte SB
If you don't see a need for a chapter, then you should not bother to set one up of course :) Otherwise the chapter would be kind of useless indeed. If the members don't beleive in it, the chapter will not work. I do not think that anyone would want to suggest that one *should* set up a chapter, but people can of course point out what the possible advantages are. It's then up to you (anyone who could set up a chapter) to find out whether the pro's outweight the con's
Lodewijk