Thanks. I'll forward this to the chapter's mailing list. We already started
the process of aquisition of official status as a legal organization in
Portugal. We'll keep you posted on the news regarding this.
Regards,
Waldir
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Anders Wennersten <
anders.wennersten(a)bonetmail.com> wrote:
You have been approved as a chapter. When you also have the local
organization in place (Board elected by an AGM etc) you will be an operative
Chapter and the following is applicable for you
UPDATE INFO ON META
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters
Please update you "line" under existing chapter and also enter your board
members under composition of chapters
GET INCLUDED INTO RELEVANT MAILLISTS AND CORRESPONDING WIKIS
There are two maillists relevant for Chapter board members
-Chapter list where all members of the board from all chapters are included
and only them. Here can be found reports from chapters general questions re
chapter business and some specific chapters issue like election of chapter
seats to the Board.. Please send a list of all you board members with
E.-mailadresses to valdelli(a)gmail.com, moderator of list and wiki
-Internal list whre key reprenatives from board and people from the Board
and Foundation have access. Here can be found early info from Foundation and
the Board, official announcements from chapters, and also some discussions
of interest for many. Here all chapter are allowed to have a maximum of five
participants in the list. Please send a list of 3-5 names with
E-mailadresses to internal-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CHAPTER AGREEMENT,; TRADEMARK USE; FUNDRAISING, GRANTS
After becoming approved by the Board and you being operative, the next step
would be to sign a Chapter agreement to regulate basics. Unfortunately this
agreement is still in a discussion phase so no agreement exists today to be
signed.
Basically what will be regulated i that the Chapters are not allowed to use
the Trademark for business purposes or to make explicit business deals
based on you utilizing the strength of the Wikipedia name etc. You are
allowed to use the Trademark to identify yourself. For further discussion re
the use of the trademark, please contact Mike Goodwin at the Foundation,
mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org. For proper business proposals you shoulkd discuss
these with Kul kwadhwa(a)wikimedia.org.
As a chapter you can be part of the general fundraising efforts, usually
starting in November. It can be tough get this in place in a short time and
it could be proposed you follow this issue on the maillist first. If you
want to discuss it, the contact otherwise is Rand rmontoya(a)wikimedia.org
As you are probably aware of there is an opportunity for chapter to apply
for grants for projects, with a focus on helping new chapter to get going,
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/WMF_grants (closed
for 2009-2010 now)
Anders