Hoi,
Typically chapters are member organisations.. As the WMF is not a member
based organisation, what kind of US legal infrastructure does it provide for
a US member based organisation ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7/10/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Casey Brown wrote:
Just for the record, we are doing State-based
chapters at the request of
the
Chapters Committee. We had originally wanted a
regional committee, but
ChapComm strongly suggested simply a state organization (and who were we
to
argue? :P).
Hmm, I'd tend to agree with the sentiment that regional / metro-based
chapters make more sense than state chapters, especially if the idea is
to organize local activity. We already have US legal infrastructure in
WMF, and there'll be more benefit in local organizing by keeping groups,
well, local.
Miami and Tallahassee, or Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Philly and
Pittsburgh, don't seem like super-convenient pairings to me.
What's the argument in favor of state-level blocks?
Interesting point about the name. However, the
two do indeed overlap,
in
many instances including this one. Our own
article even says that the
internet TLD .pa is used by Panama *and* Pennsylvania jointly, due to
the
overlap in their names. I really don't think
it is worth changing at
this
moment in time. After all, there may never be a
Wikimedia Panama and it
is
just an abbreviation, no official meaning is
given.
One sensible thing might be to use subdomains under wikimedia.us:
pa.wikimedia.us, il.wikimedia.us, etc? :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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