2008/9/8 Andrew Turvey raturvey@yahoo.co.uk:
- The initial Board will have 3-5 members
- The initial Board will serve only until the AGM
The first point here is a good estimate. This "initial board" isn't a board in so far as they are a type of steering committee. You want to have a focused group of people who are going to be dedicated to getting this group up and running. Also, there aren't a lot of tasks that can be performed in parallel at this time: paperwork and applications are single person jobs, and frequently can only have one name on them, if not a small but finite handful. 3-5 members is a good default, and I personally recommend it.
Also, since the "initial board" isn't really a board at all, they only serve until the first AGM when a real board is elected by the community.
- WM-UK will be a Company Limited by Guarantee
There has been a lot of discussion about this here on the list. Apparently, in the UK this is the best path for young charity organizations to follow (I don't know enough about UK law to recommend for or against it, but I know people have been talking about it).
- The name will be "Wiki Information Network"
In the end, the name will be whatever the person filling out the form writes down on paper. What your official legal name is doesn't matter so much anyway, since we're all going to call you "Wikimedia UK".
--Andrew Whitworth