On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I'm curious, and maybe this is the wrong thread, but can someone explain to me the difficulty in setting up a US organization that is essentially a Wikimedia membership chapter? I get the issues with trademark ownership (although it seems you could solve that with a license of some sort) and the issue of diverting donations, but what are the other impediments if any? I set up a non-profit corporation in high school, it didn't strike me as that difficult at the time.
If this has been discussed at length, as I'm sure it has, on meta - could I get the link as well?
Two links which filled me in on a lot of the background for this thread are:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Chapters_Committee
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Letter_to_Chapters_Co...