expand on rules regarding what a chapter may be

[drmowinckels]

We note that a chapter is situated in a city, but this is still a little ambiguous.
We do once in a while get people interested in starting R-Ladies chapters within companies or in interest groups, which is something we have a clear internal policy against, but its not explicitly stated.

[cosimameyer]

To throw in one more option: what about chapters that focus on a region? We have a few metropolitan areas in Germany where it makes sense to have R-Ladies region (instead of a city)

[drmowinckels]

the word "region" is often more associated with a larger area than a city, so we'd need another wording. But we DO have examples of that.

Like, Sao Paolo is both the name of a larger region , and the central metropolitan area of Sao Paolo. So we have two chapter in there, one of which is "Sao Paolo, Sao Palo".

[rivaquiroga]

This could be a good place to explain the general rules: https://guide.rladies.org/about/mission/#chapters

[rivaquiroga]

Here are the email templates we have used in the past to answer those kind of requests: https://github.com/rladies/new-chapters-onboarding/wiki/Some-extra-email-templates. Maybe we can adapt them to include then in the guide

[drmowinckels]

first reveal of that is that not everyone has access to that template (I dont)! :) Which makes it even more important to adapt and get into a more accessible spot.