One of the problems we have is that the US is much larger than most
other countries with national chapters, and we are probably going to
need to consider establishing regional subchapters. I do not believe
that having 50 state subchapters is worth doing, at least not until we
get really big. Initially we probably should have somewhere between 3
and 15 chapters, depending on interest levels, and be prepared to
split chapters as need be. It would be highly useful for us to get
demographics on where our "interested editors" are so as to better
plan the structure of a US chapter.
Even if we don't initially create subchapters (and we might not) we
should write into our bylaws the ability to create, split, merge, and
dissolve them, because it will come up.
Kelly