[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[Daniel Mayer]

--- GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you create many "chapters" not based on legal necessity, the
> administrative overhead is such that it would be mind boggling. You can
> organise it in any way you like within a national chapter and only when
> there is a need or a use to coordinate activities you do.
> 
> I do not think it makes sense to allow such local chapters the same status
> as national chapters. It does not make sense to give them all some rights to
> use the WMF trademarks. Restricting this to the WMF for the USA only does
> also not make sense, it seems to me not what the WMF is there for.

I agree completely. Other people have also had great ideas about organizing things based on metro
areas. Thus I think a middle ground exists here; a national chapter whose functional units are
based out of metro areas. Call the metro units whatever you want. One out of many. 

-- mav


 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Bored stiff? Loosen up... 
Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
http://games.yahoo.com/games/front