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 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 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. 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.