[Foundation-l] A local chapter without Wikimedians

Béria Lima berialima at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 16:44:17 UTC 2008


"you can start the process with ChapCom again from scratch if you need
to..."

I agree whit this pharse of Thomas...

Is that whem we want... start over again... from zero. Discuss point to
point... and after all we back and re-approve the Brazilian Chapter.

Att,

Béria Lima

2008/11/24 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler em gmail.com>

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton em gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 5.     So far, no legal entity has been created and there is no such a
> group
> >> of Wikimedia representatives.
> >
> > That's an interesting point that we seemed to be missing.
>
> Yes. I somehow thought that Wikimedia Brasil had been incorporated
> between ChapCom approval.
>
> > This is all
> > just at the planning stage so far? I don't see that we have any
> > serious problem then, this dispute simply means that more time needs
> > to be spent discussing the bylaws and achieving a consensus on them
> > before things move forwards (it's unfortunate that they were sent to
> > ChapCom before this was achieved, but it's not the end of the world,
> > you can start the process with ChapCom again from scratch if you need
> > to, I'm sure they won't mind).
>
> Absolutely. Nota: The approval has already been granted, so if we
> determine that the entire committee is fine with the changes, we do
> not need to formally vote on it again and neither does the board.
> (If part of the committee is not happy, then we'd have to have an
> internal vote whether we shall issue a de-recommendation resolution,
> this being the only step we can take if discussion with the chapter
> fails, but this is highly unlikely)
>
> So, it will just be ChapCom looking at it again and determining if it
> sees problems with it and possibly getting in touch with the chapter
> again, offering comments.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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