There have been a few disjoint discussions about US chapter formation recently.  Austin mentioned this in a foundation-l thread last month; Alex756 yesterday mentioned the idea of a regional chapter, and I note he had started a page about "wikimedia new york", reminding me that there is a [dormant] mailing list for such discussions.  Those who are interested, please sign up for the mailing list, and use Meta, so the discussions do not get too fragmented.  
<br><br>Outstanding issues : Does it make sense to have regional chapters?&nbsp; How could a national chapter work in a large country with&nbsp; distributed clusters of users?&nbsp; What are the legal issues involved?&nbsp; (Alex can help here).&nbsp; What are possible projects to take on?
<br><br><a href="http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l">http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l</a><br><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_of_America">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_of_America
</a><br><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York</a><br>

<br>Cheers,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; SJ<br><br>[cc:ing others who have recently brought up related ideas but aren't yet on that list.]<br><br>