Well you can ditch requirement 1 if you want to try and lead it. I am not personally giving a time commitment again unless I am meeting face to face with a core group who is going to lead this. I went through this already and I'm not interested in doing that again. I think volunteers can be remote, but the core group needs to be serious.
2010/1/18 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
On 1/19/10, Alan Walker fastalan@gmail.com wrote:
.... I am willing to be a part of this team, but before I'm willing to get involved again, I need to know I have at least 4 other serious people in
the
GTA who are willing to step up. I define serious as willing to:
- Meet roughly 6 times per year in person.
I would ditch this requirement, as it will hold up incorporation.
Use Skype or IRC. It is tedious holding a meeting this way, but it is much easier to arrange regular virtual meetings.
I've never met, in person, half of the interim committee of Wikimedia Australia.
- Willing to donate between 200 and 500 dollars or raise a similar
amount
by some form of fundraising
Offer lifetime memberships and get commitments.
You don't need to offer "benefits" other than the opportunity of helping the chapter get off the ground. You don't need to be a charitable organisation, although it would be nice; people will pay anyway. I doubt that intl donors will benefit anyway.
- An understanding that we are not forming a HUGE multinational
corporation, but a small Canadian based charity to get things started in Canada that will be managed and governed by a local group of people.
This
does not mean that things cannot become more complex as it grows, but I
am
looking to keep it simple to get it started.
Amen. From little things, big things grow.
Think where you would be now if Wikimedia Canada had started small a few years ago!
-- John Vandenberg
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