Hi, here you have a draft about MediaWiki Groups, and implicitly MediaWiki reps:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_groups
Imagine
MediaWiki Amsterdam Group MediaWiki HTML5 Group MediaWiki Women Group ...
MediaWiki groups organize open source community activities within the scope of specific topics or geographical areas. They extend the capacity of the Wikimedia Foundation in technical events, training, promotion and other technical activities benefiting Wikipedia, the Wikimedia movement and the MediaWiki software.
This proposal is being discussed in the MediaWiki context and goes in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation short term goals [1]. Feedback from the wider Wikimedia community is welcome, especially on how to combine these groups with chapters and other existing Wikimedia entities.
Note that these are intended to be _just_ groups, not formal organizations legally constituted. We are looking after simple processes for creation and management of these groups with basically zero budget.
We expect these groups to become a main delegation/empowerment tool to organize more, more distributed and more diverse technical activities. They fit perfectly in the Wikimedia Foundation strategy and the way the Wikimedia movement grows.
Please bring your ideas to the discussion page - or here. Thank you!
[1] Find mentions to "user groups" at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Milestone...