[Wikimedia ZA] Draft Documents for Wikimedia ZA chapter

[Ian Gilfillan]

  As pointed out before, we still need to fill a few holes to keep the 
process on track.

Who are the founding members?
- According to our draft, founding members are those "who agree to pay 
such annual subscription as shall be determined by the board of 
directors", so that it seems founding members cannot be chosen until 
after the directors have been decided, and then met and determined this 
fee, if any. This is a bit of a Catch-22, especially as this comes 
before the mention of directors.

- I'd like to see the founding members spread as widely as possible, and 
to be as inclusive as possible. So anyone that expresses an interest can 
be a founding member. Most chapters have a nominal fee, as the aim is to 
be inclusive (the UK has £5/year for example), and we certainly want 
something similar here. I suggest R10 a year. So, if there are no 
objections to this, in essence, the founding members would be anyone who 
shows enough enthusiasm for the process to commit to paying R10 a year 
before the final version of the document is put together.

- While there are no expectations on members to do anything, the initial 
directors will bear more responsibility in getting the fledgling chapter 
off the ground, and will need to be able to commit time and energy to 
the role. Before we decide how many positions, or what roles, I'd like 
to get an idea of who is willing to stand as a director. If you want to 
stand, please mail me. If you want to suggest someone else, discuss it 
with them and ask them to mail me, or at worst pass their name on to me 
and I'll follow up.

Let's set a deadline of next week (Wed Oct 27) to get all the names in, 
and we'll take it from there.

-- 
Ian Gilfillan
www.greenman.co.za