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:
> 1) 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.
> 2) 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.
> 3) 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