//This indicates that the discussions taking place here are really not conducive for any sort of community participation.//
Mailing lists and Meta are places where community meets to discuss few
issues but the real work takes place outside these place. For a veteran like you, I shouldn't be explaining these things.
Only less than 5% of very active contributors can grasp these organizational issues and participating in these discussions are not their priority.
//Lets continue to blame CIS, WMF, US dollars, fat salaries, vested
interests, experiments and everyone else for what is our collective
failure to set an example of how a community works. //
First of all, we haven't failed. Activity in most of the Indian Wikipedia projects are business as usual or the problems they face are expected.
Please feel free to discuss there.
Coming to the blaming part, I am not blaming anyone either. When we introspect, we can only do a context based holistic analysis.
Let WMF and CIS try doing what they are doing in any mature community
like Wikimedia Germany and let us see how those communities respond :)
//If we are looking at any sort of unity, lets first pick out our own faults before pointing the finger at others.//
Chapter's governance issues and community's unity need not be one and the same.
I feel as a community we can still move forward if we discuss things in a productive way instead of washing dirty linen in public.
Ravi