On Dec 10, 2007 6:10 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
Can you please state where the discussion regarding membership and such
happened and who the active members you mentioned are? I might've missed
something.
There was a thread from OTRS, where Hari Prasad Nadig (who is on the
Chapters committee) favored the society model, while some others
preferred a Trust. Delphine Ménard, the Chair of the Chapters
Committee advised us to carry out the discussion on Meta.
The current draft of bylaws is not final -- I've left things like
nature of the organization (Trust or Society), term of the Board etc.
for others to decide by discussion on Meta.
There has not been much discussion on Meta till now. I wonder how many
people are active on the mailing list, and how many Indian Wikipedians
know of the proceedings.
I would like the draft to finalized by December 15, but I've been busy
with things like FOSS.IN 2007 for the past few days. I've put up some
stats about the existing chapters on Meta:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/bylaws#Existing_chapters>
This should help us to decide on pending issues that are crucial for
getting approval from the Chapters Committee.
Please feel free to make changes to the draft, and drop suggestions at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/bylaws>
--
Utkarshraj Atmaram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch