In reference to the annual member fees, I'm in agreement with Zana but for different reasons. The next year or so will be quite an administrative effort as Wiki Canada applies for chapter recognition, sets up projects and gets charitable status. The directors of the corporation will need support from the member community for this. As reluctant as I am to use the "money talks" adage, a decent membership fee will ensure that the member is somewhat vested in the organization.
The downside to this is that students get screwed over. Maybe we could setup a two-tiered system - regular voting members and non-voting student "observers".
Thoughts anyone?On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Zana Gordon <zgordon@telus.net> wrote:Hi
April 27th in the evening is fine for me. I would prefer to meet at a room in UBC – restaurants are usually quite noisy and can be very distracting.
As far as membership costs I think 5-10 is a bit too low. I don’t think asking 25-35 is too much to ask. We will need to recover other start up expenses – incorporation fees, annual filing fees (if there are any).
I think your suggestion for our first project is a practical one.
Regards
Zana
From: wikimedia-ca-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-ca-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Heilman
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Subject: [Wikimedia-Canada] A few things
1) I am coming to Vancouver end of April and am hoping we can arrange a get together. Wondering what time and which day would be best ( I am thinking the 27th in the evening ). Also where should we meet? Depending on how many people who are interested we could either meet in a class room at UBC or at a restaurant.
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
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.
3) First major project: I have been thinking that our first major project should be attempting to get Wiki student / staff groups going at Universities. Do others have interest in this? Other suggestions for initial projects?
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