[Foundation-l] A question to all board candidates...

Sun May 30 21:56:50 UTC 2004

Hi all,

Le Saturday 29 May 2004 17:52, Angela a écrit :
>
> > A user from a rather minor wikipedia contact the
> > foundation mailing list, to ask for help on setting
> > a local association ...
> > Question : what do you do ?
>
> I would suggest she read [[m:Starting up a local
> Wikimedia chapter]].
>
> Oh... except that page doesn't exist yet. :)
>
> It would be great if those who have been working on
> starting up the French and German associations could
> help to create such a page. It could be a record of
> their experiences and a collection of advice for all
> future users wanting to set up chapters in their own
> local area.

I started such a page.
Help welcome. ;o)
I am probably the one most interested by setting up a local chapter of the 
foundation in France.

Yann

> I don't yet know how much influence the board will
> need to have in setting these up. Should they have
> rules on exactly what the associations are allowed to
> do? How can these be enforceable? Perhaps a discussion
> on this list on what the relationship between board
> and association should be might help such a page to
> develop. The [[m:Starting up a local Wikimedia
> chapter]] page also needs to include the Foundation's
> principles and advice on what associations need to do
> to meet those. How detailed should these be? I would
> not like to see the board have an undue amount of
> influence over these. I see it more as something to
> support them where needed rather than being there to
> determine exactly what a chapter should do.
>
> Have the people working on the French and German ones
> got any views on whether board input would have helped
> them? Or is it felt that the board should just be
> there to officially approve them after the details
> have been finalised on the local Wikimedia project?
>
> Angela.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela

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