On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 12:00 +0000, wikimedia-ca-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
This should suggest by-laws are not important as a social construct for WMCA. (It doesn't matter what they are - they won't be binding on the group.)
They're not so much a social construct as they are a legal document. As a legal document it will be binding.
Given that, use the boilerplate as modified by WMF legal counsel (who, btw, are quite willing to offer legal guidance or referral.)
The important feature is that the by-laws conform with Canadian law. The boilerplate is based on US law.
Ray
You're quibbling to no purpose, which I suppose is why this is yet not completed.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/cs01366.html <- the boilerplate to which I was referring.
Amgine