2009/5/26 joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk>:

>> 2009/5/24 Michael Peel <email@mikepeel.net>:
>> > If you have any views or suggestions about the agreement, please
>> > leave comments on the talk page, or feel free to edit the draft
>> > response itself. I hope that a complete response can be written
>> > before the next board meeting (this coming Tuesday) so that we can
>> > approve it then and get it sent off.
>>
>> SLOW DOWN! We don't have a lawyer yet. We can't do this until we have
>> one. Informal discussion between chapters is fine, but we aren't ready
>> to form a committee to do anything even vaguely official yet.
>>
>
> Well the committee has been formed. We now have to work as best we can
> with this commitee to ensure all issues are covered.

I've advised Mike on this in detail, but I'll put a summary here. If
this committee is going to be negotiating with WMF before we've spoken
to a lawyer, then we want to have nothing to do with it.