I've wanted to inform everyone who isn't aware yet, that the Polish Wikimedia community started to plan the upcoming of the Wikimedia Poland community, which would act as a local chapter to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Right now, we're gathering info and informing users on the good and the bad sides of having a more "legal" way of operating the Polish projects.
We need at least 15 interested people to start the organization. We won't spend almost any money on start, apart from some basic registration fees (a few dollars) and a domain - Wikimedia.pl.
The current list of people interested in founding the organization is listed over on meta, to be more precise, here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Polska#Lista_ch.C4.99tnych
We haven't informed the local communities on anything yet. First we want to gather more info, and when we'll actually have the first real participants and some words of courage, we'll post the info on every local village pump in every project.
Now, my only question is, what should we exactly do after registering our organization, to become a local Wikimedia chapter?
I'll try to inform foundation-l on any new progress as soon as it happens.
Hi,
Le Tuesday 12 April 2005 16:02, Dariusz Siedlecki a écrit :
I've wanted to inform everyone who isn't aware yet, that the Polish Wikimedia community started to plan the upcoming of the Wikimedia Poland community, which would act as a local chapter to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Welcome to Wikimedia Poland. ;o)
Right now, we're gathering info and informing users on the good and the bad sides of having a more "legal" way of operating the Polish projects.
We need at least 15 interested people to start the organization. We won't spend almost any money on start, apart from some basic registration fees (a few dollars) and a domain - Wikimedia.pl.
The current list of people interested in founding the organization is listed over on meta, to be more precise, here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Polska#Lista_ch.C4.99tnych
We haven't informed the local communities on anything yet. First we want to gather more info, and when we'll actually have the first real participants and some words of courage, we'll post the info on every local village pump in every project.
Now, my only question is, what should we exactly do after registering our organization, to become a local Wikimedia chapter?
I think this has to be written in the bylaws. Wikimédia France is a legal representant of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. in France, as defined in the bylaws.
AFAIK, Wikimedia Deutschland has chosen a less formal status.
I'll try to inform foundation-l on any new progress as soon as it happens.
Regards,
Yann Secretary of Wikimédia France
Dariusz,
I would like to invite you and one or two other prominent pl.wikipedia users to join juriwiki-l to discuss the details of this with the legal team. There are a lot of options and choices that we can talk about.
I'm very excited to see this development. I hope that I can come to Poland for an organizational meeting... I am very happy that I attended the first big organizational meeting of the de and fr chapters, and this is a tradition I would like to continue if I can. :-)
--Jimbo
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