Hi,<br><br>I&#39;d like to announce that we&#39;ve reached the magic number of 10 people who I set out to recruit. Thank you to all that responded, and I&#39;m still trying to make sure everyone is subscribed and on the mailing list.
<br><br>This initial group will be the people to get the ball rolling, and discuss the bylaws and general policies once Wikimedia Canada is up and running.<br><br>Membership to this group isn&#39;t closed now that we&#39;ve reached 10, but my feeling is with 10 people we now have enough to start mapping out the process.
<br><br>The next steps are contact with legal entities (lawyer(s)?) to find out what needs to be done to get this happening from a legal viewpoint. I want to get some guesstimates about the cost of the process, so we can start to pencil together a budget for this process.
<br><br>We should also think about a couple of &quot;vision&quot; points ... what Wikimedia Canada wants to do, what we want to achieve. There are already a number of great ideas on Meta about this, and I have some too.<br>
<br>I welcome any suggestions, advice, or comments on what we need to do, and how it should get done.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Gerald.<br>