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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You love theory, I love to be more realistic. Given that chapters are about
providing support in one area with one legal and financial system to the
WMF, it is clear and obvious that Kosovo is not part of greater Serbia.

When you assume that the contract with chapters can be interpreted in a way
that allows for the "final solution" of geo political issues, issues that
have led to war, I would call it silly. If the contract is to be understood
to bind the WMF in this way, I would urgently ask the WMF to reconsider this
contract.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 29 September 2010 18:07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 September 2010 18:51, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Neither New York nor Hong Kong are independent. So this is not an
> argument.
> > It is completely beside the point what is the point is that Kosovo is
> > administratively a separate area. it has its own issues..
>
> The Serbian chapter agreement says it covers all of Serbia. We need to
> know what "all of Serbia" means in order to interpret that agreement.
> There are three ways we could have two chapters:
>
> 1) Two national chapters, considering Serbia and Kosovo to be independant.
> 2) Two sub-national chapters, considering Serbia and Kosovo to be two
> (non-overlapping) parts of the same country.
> 3) A national chapter covering all of Serbia, which we consider to
> include Kosovo, and a sub-national chapter covering just Kosovo
> overlapping with the national chapter.
>
> There are some important technical differences between those
> arrangements (eg. the third option has all the same issues as have
> been brought up regarding a Catalan chapter overlapping with a Spanish
> chapter). It would be great if we could just ignore technicalities,
> but it is inadvisable. If you just ignore issues that you don't want
> to resolve, sooner or later you come to regret that decision.
>
> We also can't ignore the harm that could be caused by being seen to
> take sides in the dispute.
>
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