2008/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
Dear Wikimedia community,
We are proud and honoured to announce that a plan is in the works to found a new UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. A lot of discussion has already taken place on IRC and we are ready to begin gathering support from the community. If you are interesting in being part of a new UK chapter, in whatever capacity (from sitting on the board, to cheering us on from the sidelines), please head over to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0 and let us know. Over the next few days we will gather names and put some finishing touches to the plans. An election will be held for the initial board, who will then oversee the process of founding the company and accepting application to membership. They will then organise an AGM to formally elect a new board to take the chapter forward to begin fundraising and supporting the Wikimedia community in the UK in whatever way we can.
This is an exciting time for the UK community and I hope you will all support us in it.
Kind regards,
Thomas "Tango" Dalton Tom "Cfp" Holden River Tarnell Alex Newman Paul Williams Geni
Can we learn from our mistakes now? Doubtful, WMUK aint gonna get a single penny from my contributions, its gonna run into the same difficulties re directors or is gonna become some London wiki-hack based organisation. Perhaps, it should call itself the Wikipedia London chapter? cobble a draft constitution and and get a credit union as its banker.
At the moment I think we all need to discuss what has gone wrong before we start with the whole process for the last two years. Its just become a joke.
Mike