Sorry for being absent from the meeting this evening (I got pulled into a meeting) but I actually really like this draft though because I think a loose collaboration has always shown to be better for our groups. Smaller, mostly volunteer, chapters and groups do the best work imo (NYC is a perfect example of that) because they can focus on what they know, exactly what the local community needs, and they can do amazing work with the biggest reward. When too much consolidation happens then they focus on "bigger things" and the local, and most effective, out reach happens. My hope would be a loose group of the groups (chapters, non chapters, random wikimedians from the US) who can keep the communication going on what's working, what does well/doesn't do well and can help provide advice to groups or others who want to do this locally. Some of them may want to become chapters, or partner groups, and some may not (and some should not) but they can all help push the movement forward in the best of ways.

James

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been working on a draft for an "agreement in principle" regarding an overall strategy for Wikimedia chapters/groups in the US, with the intent to have a document that individual Wikimedians can sign at Wikimania this summer.

My working draft of the agreement is located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kirill_Lokshin/Sandbox. The current text has recently been revised based on a number of suggestions I received yesterday at the US Wikimedians' IRC meeting.

As always, any comments or suggestions would be very appreciated!

Cheers,
Kirill

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