Nathan, a sub national chapter does not preclude a national chapter. I am unable to foresee a national chapter in places where we are implementing sub national chapters, making this a moot point.
________________________________ From: Nathan nawrich@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:07:01 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/20 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de:
Not quite. One criteria is that the chapters should have well defined geographical areas and they should not overlap. So an Amsterdam chapter beside a Dutch chapter is not possible.
It was my understanding from the sub-national chapters document that such chapters might be permitted to form anyway: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sub-national_chapters (Question: "Aren't we setting up sub-national chapters to compete for funding with nation-based chapters?")
What I'm taking your statement to mean is that when a subnational chapter is formed where a national chapter could be later formed, the overlap and potential harmful consequences of such overlap would have to be carefully considered before national chapter is approved. Would that be a fair characterization? Or are you meaning 'is not possible' truly in the sense of 'will never happen'?
Earlier in this thread, Ting clearly stated that recognition of a sub-national chapter meant a national chapter could not later be formed. Andrew Whitworth indicated the same. Is that not the definitive answer to the question?
Nathan