Please, if you only read *one* thing today on Foundation-L, let it be this:
On 7/12/07, Robert Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
[snip]
... this process of formal incorporation as
a non-profit group may have to happen for the Pennsylvania group, and
may have to be dealt with for other groups in the USA as well to become
completely different entities independent of the WMF. This seems like a
waste of resources and effort, and especially money that could be better
spent on Wikimedia projects directly than to deal with legal and
accounting costs. Requiring any local Wikimedia chapters to seek formal
incorporation is also going to slow the progress of any new group
significantly, and raise the bar of talent required to put together any
such group to the point that many potential groups like this will never
be started at all. I'm not convinced that there is a need to formally
incorporate a Wikimedia San Francisco and Wikimedia Pennsylvania as
seperate entities.
[snip]
-- Robert Horning
It is by far the most wise and informed advice you will find on this.
I would ask the Chapters committee please consider the above and heed
advice from those of us with experience in overseeing nonprofits and
chapters in the US.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)