Thread:Talk:Groups/San Francisco/New, related group starting up/reply (5)

Very briefly for now, and speaking for myself, without any intent of speaking for the rest of the group. As to your bolded question above, it's actually not critically important to me to be an officially recognized group. I think it would be nice, for these reasons: That said, it's really not critical. My main reason for wanting to do this is to increase a sense of community among local people who are energized to put together collaborative writing events; that part really does not require official recognition.
 * All the events I organize are Wikipedia-focused, and it would be nice to be able to have clear permission to use the logo in promotional materials;
 * I think (or hope, at least) recognition would send a message to my colleagues in Wikimedia-land that we are here, and encourage participation, resulting in more people coming forward to propose and run their own events;
 * Setting something up now creates opportunities for deeper engagement in the future if that should become desirable (for instance, if we wanted to run another West Coast Wiki Conference and wanted to seek grant funding, we would have the head-start of being a "known and recognized entity.")

You brought up lots of other good points, and I'm happy to discuss..except right now, I will be happier to go to bed :) Till soon, -Pete F (talk) 08:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)