I had no clue this was happening! What a pleasant surprise. Congrats!
Sarah
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On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks <mcdevitd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You can see the questions AffCom put to us, and my
replies, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/US/Consortium#AffCom_quest…
The term of the recognition is the last question in the list, and Bence (CCed) commented
that "(default is a renewable one year term; I expect in your case it would also be
"1 year")". I just accepted that suggestion and didn't go dig any
deeper into the implications or other options, because it didn't seem like a big deal.
It is similar to the standard chapter agreement language:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreements/2007_template#9._Duration_and_revocation>.
Note that user groups are not typically incorporated and do not need bylaws, but there may
still be other reasons (trademark usage and activity level, for example) for having a
periodic review. If you are curious about why AffCom does that, though, they seem fairly
responsive to questions.
Dominic
On 26 June 2013 13:15, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Sven Manguard
<svenmanguard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but is the one-year term a
standard now for Wikimedia
entities, or is this a special case?
It strikes me as rather strange.
My assumption was that it was an organization still in a very early
stage and that it would be reevaluated after it developed more. e.g.
maybe it's not incorporated yet and it would be reevaluated after
incorporation.
But maybe I misunderstand how the process works in general or maybe
this particular case is special in some way.
Anyway, agreed, great news.
-Jeremy
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