2009/1/20 Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@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:
- 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.
3) The various sub-national USA chapters could form a union/federation of chapters. They remain independent chapters, but have a structure in place to enable them to work together effectively.