[Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters

[Anthony]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Henning Schlottmann
>
> <h.schlottmann at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >  If NYC is the frontrunner, then have them set up /the/ national chapter
>  >  for the United States. I don't understand why anyone would want to have
>  >  several incorporated chapters in the USA. One should be enough. All
>  >  local or regional activities can happen under that umbrella.
>  >
>
>  It's not that easy.  Pennsylvania/Philadelphia were actually the first
>  ones interested in becoming a "chapter" and now we have Washington,
>  D.C. that is interested in creating a chapter as well.
>
Moreover, the PA folks have indicated that they're interested in
forming an organization whether the WMF is going to go along with them
or not.  So if you don't allow a Wikimedia Pennsylvania, or you try to
micromanage Wikimedia Pennsylvania from some other location, you'll
wind up with a "Wikis in PA".  To quote wknight8111, "We were going to
call it "Wikimedia Pennsylvania" or whatever, but if we can't use that
name we will call it something else".