[Foundation-l] Serbia and Montenegro

Thu May 25 15:26:42 UTC 2006

--- Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> That was my first thought, too, but I don't think this direction is
> necessarily right. First of all, you end up with another legal body
> with another to-be-(s)elected group of representatives: more
> bureaucracy. More importantly, cooperations between chapters are
> likely going to be an "ad hoc" thing:
> - "Let's have an Eastern Europe meeting."
> - "Let's cooperate between DE and AT for a media campaign."
> - "Let's start a metadata project for digitized documents in Croatian
> and Serbian."
> - "Let's approach a Commonwealth organization for a grant."

Good point for things like a Wikimedia Balkans (where no nation or nation-like body exists that
covers that area), but I don't agree for things like a Wikimedia Europa, where a such a body does
exist (a confederation of nations that is growing closer together and has many laws and
representatives of its own). But in reality, this is up to a combination of popular support in
various areas and what the board will allow as an *official* chapter. 

-- mav

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