[Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere9 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> One benefit I can identify from this decision is that we could push
> forward that
> * partner organizations are ONLY recognized by Wikimedia Foundation
> * whilst chapters could finally push forward the idea that a new chapter
> has to be recognized by the network of chapter + WMF rather than WMF only.
> In short, a chapter could be an element of a network whilst a partner will
> be only a WMF partner and not necessarily accepted by the network of
> chapters.
>
>
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. How would this benefit
the movement?

Best
Bishakha