Our bylaws are pretty complete anyway, they just need a bunch of proofing against the new law. Does the new law have an online step-by-step guide to bylaw creation like the one we used for the old law? If we found something that straightforward, we could get these finished enough to present them to the WMF within a couple months.
The main thing we have to figure out is our statement of purpose. We can't be a lobby group (though it would be useful to ALSO have a lobby group) and there is no category for online encyclopedias. If I remember right, we tried to make our current statement of purpose match that of museums, which sort of works. Once that is done, we have time to work on the nuances of everything else.
I think once we get the boring bylaw stuff done and are recognized by the WMF, we'll see lots of new people volunteering their time to help us with more interesting projects.
-Jeffery Nichols (Arctic.gnome)
On 2010-01-20, at 5:33 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Under the new law most of the detailed by-laws do not need to be filed
> prior to incorporation. One will have a year *after* incorporation to
> file them, and prior approval by the Minister before by-laws or their
> amendments will no longer be necessary. Charitable status will be
> important, and the design and wording of the purposes should keep that
> possibility in view. The purposes still need to be stated in the
> corporation application.
>
> Ray
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