Message I sent to ChapCom for your information:
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Andrew Turvey <raturvey(a)yahoo.co.uk>
To: chaptercommittee-l(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: WMUK <board(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 23:50:16
Subject: Re: Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed) - Constitution
Dear Chapters Committee,
Further to my email of 16th, Andrew Whitworth came to our meeting on 21st and
fed back two queries regarding our proposed Memorandum and Articles of
Association (M&A) regarding the role of the General Meeting and the appointment
of auditors.
I have added some explanatory notes at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA#General_meetings and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA#Notice_of_General_Meet…
which I hope will be enough to explain the situation.
Since then we met again on Monday when we formed the company using our draft M&A
and this will be sent to Companies House for registration later this week once
the documents have been officially sworn.
Please let me know if you have any further queries or if there is anything else
we can do to encourage a positive recommendation to the Foundation. If you
decide you do want any changes to be made to the Memorandum and Articles we will
still be able to do this after the formation has completed by passing an
amendment.
Look forward to hearing from you soon,
Andrew Turvey
Secretary
Wikimedia UK (proposed)
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----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew Turvey
To: chaptercommittee-l(a)wikimedia.org
Cc: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; WMUK
Sent: Thursday, 16 October, 2008 2:00:57
Subject: Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed) - Constitution
Dear Chapters Committee,
I am writing on behalf of the UK Wikimedian community which is currently
working
to establish a new chapter for the United
Kingdom.
Over the past two months, we have been working through the steps to establish
this new chapter. Starting in late August, we publicised our initiative
throughout the UK wikimedian community and invited other wikimedians to get
involved. We held an election of an interim Board in September, and their
first
task was to draw up a constitution.
After extensive consultation with the community and discussion among the Board
members, we approved our draft constitution on
Monday and would like to submit
it to you now for your comments and approval in
accordance with the "Step by
step chapter creation guide".
We have decided that the most appropriate legal structure for our chapter
would
be a "Company Limited by Guarantee". We
have based our constitution (termed
the
"Memorandum of Association" and the
"Articles of Association") on the Model
documents issued by the UK Charity Commission. The main revisions we have made
to these is to shift the general balance of
powers between the Directors and
the
members towards the members and to allow for
electronic communications and
meetings.
Our draft constitution can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/MoA&oldid…
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/AoA&oldid…
The text of the constitution is shown in Bold text with additional explanatory
notes in Italic. Note that the Italic notes do
not form part of the
constitution. Revisions to the Model documents are highlighted by underlining
additional text and striking through the deleted text.
Please let us know if you have any queries regarding these and otherwise we
look
> forward to hearing from you once you have had a chance to consider these.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
>
> Andrew Turvey
> Secretary
> Wikimedia UK v2 (proposed)
>
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