Sorry you're right - we only have to advise the Foundation of a change:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreement#Bylaws
Must be misremembering!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bimmler" mbimmler@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 11 May, 2009 23:49:42 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com wrote:
We would also need the Foundation to approve the change which could take months.
Hmm...? If I remember correctly, Chapters Committee has always been very informal about this IF a chapter even notifies us of a bylaws change. As a matter of fact, we hardly ever receive notifications of bylaws changes (certainly none for not-mission/object-related changes) and if we do, we generally look at it and if we're fine, we just communicate it that way.
Read: There is no affirmative resolution needed by ChapCom, which speeds up the process extremely.
Of course, if we received note (by the chapter or a 3rd party) of an absolutely objectionable bylaws change, eg. change of the charity's object to something unconnected to free knowledge, we might pass a resolution recommending derecognition by the board.
Michael