On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > It was my understanding from the sub-national chapters document that > such chapters might be permitted to form anyway: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sub-national_chapters > (Question: "Aren't we setting up sub-national chapters to compete for > funding with nation-based chapters?")
The sub-national chapters document did hint that overlapping wasn't a problem, but enough "what if" disaster scenarios have been suggested that we are probably not going to approve any overlapping chapters anyway. At least, not yet. > What I'm taking your statement to mean is that when a subnational > chapter is formed where a national chapter could be later formed, the > overlap and potential harmful consequences of such overlap would have > to be carefully considered before national chapter is approved. Would > that be a fair characterization? Or are you meaning 'is not possible' > truly in the sense of 'will never happen'? I suspect it's not "will never happen", but instead is "should only happen after very careful consideration and agreement". If there is a country with an existing sub-national chapter and an organization effort to create a national one, I think we would all suggest that the subnational chapter redefine it's region to become a national chapter, instead of allowing two separate groups to overlap. Even if it's not a "problem", it still seems like a needless waste of effort for two groups to be doing the same things in the same region. --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
