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Future members

If you would like to be notified about calls for candidates for the Chapters Committee (likely to happen soon), please sign up here. --Dami 15:31, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

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• Yes, I'd like to be notified, sign me up! Palnatoke 10:45, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

• Yes, I'd like to be notified, sign me up! Gomà 07:32, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

• Yes, I'd like to be notified, sign me up! Superzerocool 14:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Chapcom scope

I just realized that you have changed the description of ChapCom. I wonder if there is any board resolution changing the ChapCom original scope.--Gomà 13:04, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

There is no Board resolution changing the scope of Chapcom, as far as I know, I simply updated the wiki page to reflect the current practical reality (the meaning of the paragraph didn't really change substantially as regards the scope). Do you think there should be a change, or at least that Chapcom should be more active in other areas it is mandated to act? --Dami 16:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

I ask because I saw there will be an open search of volunteers and the interest of some possible candidates to participate may depend on the tasks to do. As for my opinion I think that sooner or later there will be chapters everywhere and the task of creating new chapters have their days numbered. However, if there are more chapters and perhaps other affiliated organizations the task of coordination and communication may be increasingly necessary. If you look at the mail I sent to the chapcom list on 10 October 2010, presenting my candidacy you will see that I explained that one of the motivations to candidate was to work on these issues. Happy New Year.--Gomà 22:59, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

I think that Dami's change indeed reflects the current activities. Within the current climate, I also personally think that any 'coordination' is not very likely in the current climate anyway. But I also don't exclude the possibility that this changes in the future - important there is not so much the mandate from the WMF board, but much rather the mandate that the chapters would give.

What seems to be missing however is the task to also advise on 'unrecognizing' chapters when need arises - a task we have never had to deal with so far (except perhaps in some technical cases). Effeietsanders 10:01, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I understand that the duration of the chapter's contract is one year renewable. More than 'unrecognizing' perhaps we need to evaluate regularly the chapter providing them recomentations for improvement and in extreme cases recomendations of not to renew the contract. Probably the climate and the will to cooperate, coordinate and communicate should be important factors in this evaluation.--Gomà 11:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Legally speaking they are 1 year contracts perhaps - but as far as I know there is no *active* renewal - there will have to be an active decision not to renew, rather than the reverse. And for any process to review chapters to be a success, it will have to be actively supported by those same chapters. There seems to be some support for such a process, but then rather peer-based than 'from above'. But that is probably a discussion that is not chapcom specific, and deserves a more broad stage :) Effeietsanders 12:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

chapter wiki site

Members of this committee may be interested in the discussion at Proposals for closing projects/Closure of nzwikimedia. Or not. ~ Ningauble 21:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ningauble, In my two years in the Chapters Committee I don't remember having contact with a New Zealand group, so it is probably safe to say that the wiki can be protected until a new community forms up again. --Dami 00:31, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Status

I have questions about the status of a chapter which has had its by-laws approved but has made no steps towards an organizational assembly or the election of officers. Does such a chapter truly exist?Thelmadatter 00:29, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

It depends on the situation, usually, we count chapterhood from the date of official registration by the relevant local authorities. If you would like to share your concerns in confidence with a particular chapter, please contact us, to discuss this. --Dami 00:33, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

I sent an email to the only address that appears in the Get in touch section and chatted with Laura in irc, but it doesnt seem to have gotten through. Any suggestions?Thelmadatter 01:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

It seems your email got through fine, but we just have not been able to write a response yet. Someone is looking into it. Effeietsanders 08:22, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

The situation has NOT changed since I last talked to you. Decisions are being made with no formal mechanisms and nothing has been done to rectify this situation.Thelmadatter (talk) 20:39, 27 March 2012 (UTC)