[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

[Thomas Dalton]

On 27 September 2010 20:36, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> The most important harm which exists now is the fact that free
> knowledge activists from Kosovo are not included yet into the
> Wikimedia movement. So, until the situation becomes more clear, we
> should think how to solve that problem.
>
> And we have tools to do that. Let's call them to internal-l (for
> example, to ask FLOSSK, as any WM chapter to delegate five members to
> the internal-l and chapters-l), let's treat their events as friendly
> ones (I was in Pristina, Gerard and Siebrand have already been at
> their event in Albania -- yes, free software and free knowledge
> activists from Kosovo are responsible for organizing those events in
> Albania -- but without WMF's official support), let's give to a couple
> of them scholarships for the next Wikimanias, etc.

So your proposal is basically to make the Kosovan group a recognised
non-chapter group (like we're talking about doing with the Kansai
group) and then "upgrade" them to chapter status at a later date
if/when it is less contentious to do so? That could work.