On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
On the contrary, I think that the issue of how chapters are structured between states and countries is a critical issue.
-Dan
On May 3, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Sebastian Moleski wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Hm. It is a wrong way for arguing for state-level chapters in USA. Free State Bavaria is, for example, much more independent entity than any of US states. And there are a number of similar examples in Europe.
Could we please remain within the scope of the question here, namely on what basis to structure chapters and what factors influence that? The intricate (quite political) details of what level of sovereignty a country, state, province, or whatever has hold little to no relevance for this question.
I wanted to say that a level of independence is often less important than some other issues. If the goal is to build a functional organization, then we should think about aspects which are particularly important in some cases. In the case of US (and other big countries) there is much more important problem than a level of regional autonomy: the distance. Because of that, I may imagine that WM New England would be a functional organization, while I am not sure that WM California would be.