Hi everybody.
Just a few points.
1. Is it necesary that we work through a lawyer (or law firm)? Isn't it possible that we can do all the technicalities ourselves? 2. I too agrre that the incorporated entry should be on the federal level- just one note, will there be a physical center, or office of some kind, or legal address at least? And if yes, then where does everyone think it should be located? 3. Thirdly, I can do my best to volunteer and be on the board, if need be, so you can count me in.
Regards, Emil Jabbarli.
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Hopefully we now have all 10 people on board the list, as well as some from before.
Welcome, all.
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.
Ok, I've contacted one law firm on this, and their "ballpark" figure was about $1000. So, to be safe, let's guess this is $1,200. I will contact a few other firms, to make sure this is a reasonable guess.
We should also think about a couple of "vision" 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.
One vision point which has already been discussed is community benefit. After all, the WMF's goal is to bring knowledge to the masses for free. And that is pretty special.
Now we have to draw up a bit of a timetable, and plan what has to happen when. All initial 10 people I approached have a flexible commitment to moving this forward, but we should start soliciting for people who may want to be on the board. The board isn't going to be that much work -- I guess a few e-mails and possibly a conference call in a month. If you can spare an hour, or know someone who can commit to that in a month, I think that should be great for now.
From reading the various bits, it seems like the
best way to pursue this is as a Federal non profit. We have to make sure that makes us nonprofit in all Canadian jurisdictions.
Here is what has been started, so far:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Incorporation
Let's see if we can come up with the needed bylaws. I will be looking for some examples, if anyone has some references feel free to add them.
Thanks, Gerald.