[Foundation-l] Board resolutions (chapters)

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/1/20 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi,
>> What I said was that the NY chapter prevents an USA chapter. It would be
>> obvious to have one such. With one in place, you can organise to your hearts
>> content wherever you like.
>> Thanks,
>
> Two answers to this question:
> 1) WMNYC does prevent the creation of a separate WMUSA chapter. At the
> moment the rule-of-thumb is that chapters cannot overlap. However, it
> may be possible in the future if both groups agree to share space, but
> we haven't had an issue like that and I can't imagine the benefit of
> doing it that way.
> 2) It is possible that as participation grows, maybe WMNYC could grow
> to become WMUSA over time. Maybe there are several sub-national
> chapters that combine together to form a single national chapter, or
> maybe the one chapter grows slowly to encompass more area. These are
> just speculative possibilities, but it's worth noting that
> sub-national chapters have these kinds of options.

3) The various sub-national USA chapters could form a union/federation
of chapters. They remain independent chapters, but have a structure in
place to enable them to work together effectively.