Hi Castelo,

Just to answer you quickly on the first question: we generally prefer
a volunteer made translation of the bylaws (because they tend to be
free and are of good enough quality to understand and review the
issues relevant to us), so that is what I would recommend to you.

Before we as the Chapters Committee would start reviewing the bylaws,
we would need to get some more information as you say: both some
general info[1] and the specifics related to your special situation.
Feel free to send the answers to me, to Lodewijk
<lodewijk@effeietsanders.org> who's been in initial contact with
Beria, or to the general address of the Committee
<chaptercommittee-l@lists.wikimedia.org>. (Unfortunately, it may take
a bit of time to receive an answer especially if you have questions
that require an internal discussion among ourselves, so please don't
be discouraged if we are slow to respond - and feel free to send me a
personal reminder to speed things up.)

Best regards,
Bence
Chapters Committee

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee/Pipeline/Follow-up_questions
- I think Beria shared these questions with you, I am not sure I have
seen the answers to it yet


On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Castelo Branco
<michelcastelobranco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear ChapCom members,
>
> Moving forward, we would like to submit an English version of our bylaws for
> your approval, as recommended in the Step 5 of the Chapter Creation
> Guide[1], which also says that "The Chapters committee might ask for a
> lawyer approved translation of the bylaws, in which case it will provide the
> necessary budget to translate the bylaws."
>
> In Brazil, a lawyer approved translation would cost around USD 500 for this
> lenght (~17k words). We would like to know if we should hire this service or
> provide the translation by ourselves. In the first case, how should we apply
> for the necessary budget?
>
> We also have some other informations to provide, and it would be great to
> have a mentor in this process, as sometimes it can be helpful to know how
> much are you aware of our context (and how much is necessary to describe) in
> some particular issues.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Castelo Branco
> Wikimedia Brasil
>
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_chapter_creation_guide
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Béria Lima <berialima@gmail.com>
> Date: 2011/10/2
> Subject: Wikimedia Brazil
> To: chaptercommittee-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: CasteloBranco <michelcastelobranco@gmail.com>, Fabio Azevedo
> <fazedo@gmail.com>
>
>
> Hello people from ChapCom,
>
> As you surely know, in the past, the Brazilian community started a process
> for establishing a local organization to promote the WMF projects within the
> country. Early in September 2008, we submitted to the ChapCom a proposal for
> creating the chapter Wikimedia Brasil, which was approved. Nevertheless, in
> the same year,  the volunteers have chosen not to establish a formal chapter
> in that time. The reasons were pointed out in the Chapter Report 2008, but
> this discussion never ended.
>
> In 2011, the whole Brazilian community has finally reached an agreement, in
> order to create a minimum legal structure to support and expand our
> activities across the country. Those activities will keep being freely
> created and driven by volunteers, but with legal, institutional and
> financial support by WMBR Board. With such model in mind, we have re-written
> our  bylaws, which is now being reviewed by lawyers. The next step will be
> submitting it to the ChapCom and asking for the new recognizement as a
> chapter. All our steps are being widely announced, either in our
> mailing-list as in social networks and also discussed in our wiki and in
> many IRC-meetings.
>
> Therefore, we would like to re-start this process.
> _____
> Béria Lima
> Wikimedia Brazil volunteer
> (351) 925 171 484
>
> Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
> acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
> fazer.
>
>
>
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