On 4 February 2011 11:13, Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Care should be
taken, however, not to give the school/church/etc. the
impression that you are representing the chapter or acting in any kind
of official capacity (unless the chapter does actually give you some
kind of official position or ask you to represent it).
On the other side of the planet, for WM Hong Kong we're fine with any
paid-up member to go out in the name of us unless we told them not to. I
think it's overly conservative to preemptively prevent a member of your
organisation to go out and do things as "a member of Wikimedia UK"...
The problem is that we could be legally responsible for what someone
does while representing us. They can say that they are a member,
that's a simple fact, but we need to maintain some degree of control
over what is done in our name. (The same is probably true in HK - you
should be careful.)