[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Typically chapters are member organisations.. As the WMF is not a member
based organisation, what kind of US legal infrastructure does it provide for
a US member based organisation ?
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/10/07, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Casey Brown wrote:
> > Just for the record, we are doing State-based chapters at the request of
> the
> > Chapters Committee.  We had originally wanted a regional committee, but
> > ChapComm strongly suggested simply a state organization (and who were we
> to
> > argue? :P).
>
> Hmm, I'd tend to agree with the sentiment that regional / metro-based
> chapters make more sense than state chapters, especially if the idea is
> to organize local activity. We already have US legal infrastructure in
> WMF, and there'll be more benefit in local organizing by keeping groups,
> well, local.
>
> Miami and Tallahassee, or Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Philly and
> Pittsburgh, don't seem like super-convenient pairings to me.
>
> What's the argument in favor of state-level blocks?
>
> > Interesting point about the name.  However, the two do indeed overlap,
> in
> > many instances including this one.  Our own article even says that the
> > internet TLD .pa is used by Panama *and* Pennsylvania jointly, due to
> the
> > overlap in their names.  I really don't think it is worth changing at
> this
> > moment in time.  After all, there may never be a Wikimedia Panama and it
> is
> > just an abbreviation, no official meaning is given.
>
> One sensible thing might be to use subdomains under wikimedia.us:
> pa.wikimedia.us, il.wikimedia.us, etc? :)
>
> - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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