2008/9/6 Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com:
the WMF's guidelines for chapters say if possible the organisation should have a membership structure open to the community).
And the problem remains. How do you fit this requirement into UK (charity) law?
I fail to see the problem. Could you elaborate?
At 23:37 +0100 6/9/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/9/6 Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com:
the WMF's guidelines for chapters say if possible the organisation should have a membership structure open to the community).
And the problem remains. How do you fit this requirement into UK (charity) law?
I fail to see the problem. Could you elaborate?
Sure. If by "membership structure" you mean several hundred "members", as we would expect, will we all be "guarantor members" of the company (and then the charity later)?
See for example:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK/Meetings/2006.i.29
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikimediauk-l/2007-July/001019.htm...
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikimediauk-l/2007-May/000946.html
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikimediauk-l/2007-July/001029.htm...
Gordo
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