On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:35 PM, ENWP Pine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tonight in #wikimedia-us at 6 PM Pacific will be the next Wikimedia US > meeting. Included on the agenda is discussion of the proposed Wikimedia > Cascadia chapter. > > Possible geography for the Chapter includes California, Oregon, > Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska until such time as some of these > areas have more localized chapters. Also under discussion is asking > WM-Canada to share British Columbia with WM-Cascadia. > > Please join the discussion in #wikimedia-us, > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Cascadia, and/or > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Cascadia. > > Anyone who is interested in discussing a potential chapter that would > include the Bay area, please join the discussion! > > Pine > I may not be able to make it, but wanted to express interest and bring up one point of discussion... In the past, I have informally asked Chapter Committee members about the possibility of a chapter like this. I was told with no equivocation that chapters which officially spanned multiple municipalities were forbidden, and that we could have a Wikimedia Oregon, Washington, or California only because we would have to pick a state in which to become officially incorporated in and be responsible for. My suggestion would be to avoid seeking official chapter status, and instead form a group like Wikimedia Cascadia as a user group or thematic organization. Steven
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