Hi, slightly off-topic, but for those who wonder what is "Kansai group", I'd love to give some clues as its members, as follows:
meta page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WiKansai (mostly written in Japanese but some English description) own wiki: http://kansai.wikimedia.jp
For information of [[Kansai]] region may be found on your favorite Wikipedia. Having over 3.5 millions' population, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe are situated - rich of both historical and modern elements including active FLOSS vibes.
We at Wikimedians in Kansai are no legal body and currently consist in only five people, so don't fall into the category of aspirant chapters - a legal body with over 25 supporter. It might be no big deal to gather such other 20 people, but we decided to take actions before satisfying formal requirements. At least at this moment it goes quite smoothly.
I agree with Milos on that would be a way for Kosovan people. Again, I'd repeat at least it works well for us very much and we would not be the last people in such a situation.
Cheers,
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 13:35, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
So your proposal is basically to make the Kosovan group a recognised non-chapter group (like we're talking about doing with the Kansai group) and then "upgrade" them to chapter status at a later date if/when it is less contentious to do so? That could work.
If that means full integration [without just official chapter status], then yes. I would give to the both groups right to vote for chapters elected Board seats, too. This is especially true for the Kansai group, which would have more members than some chapters; while FLOSSK's free knowledge group has members as any smaller chapter has.
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