Hi Nicholas,
Can you please state where the discussion regarding membership and such happened and who the active members you mentioned are? I might've missed something. As far as I remember you asked in this list about willingness to join and several people including me had expressed interest. I noticed Utcursch's comparison of Trusts and Societies. Apart from these, I'm not aware of any discussion that happened.
I think that the Wikimedia chapter needs to have sufficient representation from as many Indian wikipedias as possible. Can we please have a detailed update in this list and the meta pages?
Regards, Sundar
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On Dec 10, 2007 6:10 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Nicholas,
Can you please state where the discussion regarding membership and such happened and who the active members you mentioned are? I might've missed something.
There was a thread from OTRS, where Hari Prasad Nadig (who is on the Chapters committee) favored the society model, while some others preferred a Trust. Delphine Ménard, the Chair of the Chapters Committee advised us to carry out the discussion on Meta.
The current draft of bylaws is not final -- I've left things like nature of the organization (Trust or Society), term of the Board etc. for others to decide by discussion on Meta.
There has not been much discussion on Meta till now. I wonder how many people are active on the mailing list, and how many Indian Wikipedians know of the proceedings.
I would like the draft to finalized by December 15, but I've been busy with things like FOSS.IN 2007 for the past few days. I've put up some stats about the existing chapters on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/bylaws#Existing_chapters
This should help us to decide on pending issues that are crucial for getting approval from the Chapters Committee.
Please feel free to make changes to the draft, and drop suggestions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/bylaws
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