[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: [Intlwiki-l] The Wikpedia family

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 07 October 2002 12:03 pm, Eclecticology wrote:
> ....but the PR advantage of having no single
> nation able to control the project would be tremendous.

Now that you put it that way I completely agree.

> There already appears to be a consensus about having the project in a
> non-profit corporation.  That's a little past pre-planning.  It opens up
> a whole lot of questions about corporate structure and what would go
> into the constitution and by-laws.  What would be the most appropriate
> jurisdiction for incorporation?  How many directors should there be?
> What constitutes a meeting of directors when those directors are
> scattered around the world?  How do we insure maximum accessibility to
> members for corporate decision making, while protecting the vision and
> investment that went into the project in the first place, and at the
> same time maintaining enough flexibility in our rules so that the rules
> themselves don't bring the whole thing to a screeching halt? Etc., etc.,
> etc.,

Point taken. These are very good questions that need to be worked out on the 
mailing lists and on Metapedia. A good thing to do would be to copy your 
questions into a Metapedia page and then we can go from there.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)