2008/9/10 Alison Wheeler wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com:
On Wed, September 10, 2008 13:15, Thomas Dalton wrote:
A 3-month notice period? So the contract between WM UK v1 and WMF wasn't the same one as Delphine has a copy of online (which is for a year and it automatically renewed each year unless someone stops it)?
Both are correct. The Contract between WER and WMF is on a rolling annual basis, however it has a both-sides-option cancellation clause which entails a three-month notice.
Ok, that makes sense - we were just talking at slightly cross purposes.
A couple of other things: Firstly (as has been partially noticed by some but not made explicit) this talk of the first Board being an "interim" one is misleading. The first Board have full management powers over the Company and are not, in that respect, any different to subsequent Boards. Those people named as signatories to the founding of the Company are that first Board.
Indeed. I've been trying to use the phrase "initial board", rather than "interim board", but it hasn't entirely stuck.
Secondly, the AoA and MoA we developed in 2005 were specifically put together for the purpose and they and the agreement (contract) with the WMF were the first to be developed properly too (the latter then being used as a basis for other Chapters formal agreements). As such ComCom shouldn't have any issue with re-accepting them so long as nothing major is changed.
Unfortunately, the Charities Act 2006 and Companies Act 2006 have changed a few things and the charities commission has published new models. In order to make charity registration as smooth as possible, we need to use the new models (with a few minor modifications, I expect), and we'll just have to accept the hassle of getting them approved by ChapCom again.