On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 19:03, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
As I recall, Delphine wrote on 8/27/08 at 3:18AM:
- WMF's (financial) help can come in the form lawyer/charity advice in
order to make sure that the whole paperwork and prerequisites are filled out, also to sort out the bank account issues if needed.
I'm fairly certain that this doesn't mean we're going to hand a note to Mike Godwin and say, "look into this"; rather it possibly would involve the employment/contacting of a professional *within the UK* who is more knowledgeable about such things than any of us are.
Very exactly that indeed. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
This would certainly mean that we can have all our i's dotted and our t's crossed well in advance.
This is to the benefit of WMUK as well as the WMF; and save all of us a lot of "IANAL, but I am reading this as..." and let us spend time on the task of our Mission, both in the United Kingdom and outside.
For the record, the offer to help still holds for whatever course of action willbe decided in the next few days. Rather than having people argue over interepretations of the law, I would be more comfortable having once and for all a laid out procedure on how to best go about making a functional Wikimedia UK.
Cheers,
Delphine
Delphine
Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator
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