Also not totally sure If I'll be able to make it or not but have generally
made my belief known that broad spanding chapters like this are not a good
idea overall. In addition to the concerns from Steven below I just think
that the requirements and desires of groups in Alaska, Oregon, California
etc are too different. Yes I know that there are large countries with
single chapters but even there the work is really generally segregated to
one area of the country and not the whole place. I would be strongly
against a chapter this big but a user group of people interested is
<shrugs> fine.
James
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:35 PM, ENWP Pine
<deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Tonight in #wikimedia-us at 6 PM Pacific will be
the next Wikimedia US
meeting. Included on the agenda is discussion of the proposed Wikimedia
Cascadia chapter.
Possible geography for the Chapter includes California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska until such time as some of these
areas have more localized chapters. Also under discussion is asking
WM-Canada to share British Columbia with WM-Cascadia.
Please join the discussion in #wikimedia-us,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cascadia, and/or
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Cascadia.
Anyone who is interested in discussing a potential chapter that would
include the Bay area, please join the discussion!
Pine
I may not be able to make it, but wanted to express interest and bring up
one point of discussion...
In the past, I have informally asked Chapter Committee members about the
possibility of a chapter like this. I was told with no equivocation that
chapters which officially spanned multiple municipalities were forbidden,
and that we could have a Wikimedia Oregon, Washington, or California only
because we would have to pick a state in which to become officially
incorporated in and be responsible for.
My suggestion would be to avoid seeking official chapter status, and
instead form a group like Wikimedia Cascadia as a user group or thematic
organization.
Steven
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-SF mailing list
Wikimedia-SF(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf