Hi,
There is not currently a deadline for making a decision about SF's
affiliation, but I ask the question because it would be helpful to
Cascadia's initial planning if you clarify your intentions.
It appears that the MediaWiki group focuses on MediaWiki software and its
users. Cascadia will focus on mutually beneficial relationships between
Wikimedia content sites, the interests of Cascadia members, and
mission-aligned interests of organizations in the Cascadia region like
GLAMs, research and education institutions, government agencies, and open
source technology organizations.
Pine
On Aug 18, 2014 12:31 AM, "マイキ" <maiki(a)interi.org> wrote:
Welp, we have
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/San_Francisco, which
hasn't done much lately, and I am partially accountable for that. But that
is not completely focused on Wikipedia, and isn't a potential charter group
like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Wikimedians.
I don't comprehend what the chapters do, exactly, because we have the WMF
in town, and it seems redundant to have a chapter here as well. That may be
a good thing, of course.
If you want to form your own group or want to
remain unaffiliated, that
is a decision that we will respect.
Thanks for putting that forth, I guess; sounds like we are being visited
by benevolent aliens. ^_^
Is there a deadline coming up on your chapter submission? I get that you
want to do outreach, so maybe you could explain a bit more about yer
chapter and all that, and how it is different from the MediaWiki group.
maiki
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:57:29PM -0700, Pine W wrote:
Hi SF Wikimedians,
I think we are getting near to the formal formation of Cascadia
Wikimedians. There have been occasional questions about whether SF is
forming its own user group or would like to be included in Cascadia. If
you
want to form your own group or want to remain
unaffiliated, that is a
decision that we will respect. If you would like to be included in
Cascadia
please let us know. We are currently proceeding
with Oregon, Washington,
and British Columbia.
From my point of view, SF is culturally similar to the three planned
Cascadia territories and there would be an economy of scale in including
SF
in Cascadia.The downsides of including SF are
geographic stretch and the
complicated California regulatory environment. My feeling is that SF
would
do better as its own user group, but we are happy
to collaborate with you
or talk about including you in our membership if you are interested in
affiliating with Cascadia.
Regards from your northern neighbor,
Pine
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