Sent offlist by accident - can people please not click "Reply to all",
just click "Reply". Doing otherwise messes up the reply-to header and
emails end up going to the wrong people. Thanks.
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2008/9/6
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia v2 structure
To: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>
> There are no shareholders in a company limited by guarantee (since there are
> no shares issued).
I know - that was just a general definition of an AGM. There are two
types of private limited company, limited by shares or limited by
guarantee. We're going to be the later
> The discussion of who should be the guarantor members has been going on as
> long as I remember! Some charities limit that membership to the trustees,
> and some do not, and I am a member and a trustee of both types of charity.
There's been discussion about it? I thought it was universally
accepted that membership would be open to the community (exact
definitions may be negotiable, but the basic principle is already
determined - the WMF's guidelines for chapters say if possible the
organisation should have a membership structure open to the
community).