On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com> wrote:

2) Membership drive: As we are now officially incorporated and hopefully will soon be an official chapter we need to prepare for our launch and a membership drive. 1600 Wiki editors list themselves as Canadians here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_Wikipedians A 150 have added themselves on meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Participants

Maybe I missed an e-mail to the list, but I haven't heard that we got an official response from the Government.

Let me say, Congratulations to all who have made this possible! There have been many iterations to get from a few people with the idea to form WM Canada until now, when we actually have a legal entity.

WRT the process Alan Walker is working on a website which will take online registration. We have been thinking a nominal fee of $ 5 or 10 dollars to cover mailing and stationary costs plus some web hosting. We are in the process of setting up a bank account for Wiki Canada. This will take another couple weeks yet as the bank needs to mail the paper work out to the directors. Thus official registration will not begin until after this is accomplished.

This was bantered back and forth years ago, if I recall correctly. I don't remember what the consensus was at the time, but my feeling is "less is better".

Is there a link somewhere to the official Incorp stuff, and the structure that we will be adhering to?

Thanks,

Gerald.