Please find below an email from Mike Goodwin, the Wikimedia Foundation's General
Counsel, to the Wikimedia chapters regarding on-going discussions on a new standard
chapters agreement. He has agreed that we can share this information with chapter members.
This information may also be relevant to the members when considering Resolutions 6a and 7
to the AGM, which require the Directors to get a vote of the membership in favour before
agreeing to any changes to the Chapter Agreement.
Andrew
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Mike Godwin" <mgodwin(a)wikimedia.org>
To: "Chapters Committee list" <chaptercommittee-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
"Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
<internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 20 April, 2009 21:30:20 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [Internal-l] Update on Chapters Agreement revision
Dear Wikimedians,
As those of you who were at the meeting in Berlin will recall, I said I hoped to have a
revised standard Chapters Agreement available for your review by today. Thanks to the
exceedingly useful feedback I received in Berlin about trademark issues and other
considerations, that revision is taking a little longer than I expected. The delay is in
part due to the fact that we are having Stanford Law School review the revised Agreement
-- the revision is comprehensive, and it deals with a lot more than just trademark issues.
The Stanford legal clinic has reviewed a range of chapter affiliation agreements from
around the world, and the effort has been aimed at producing the best possible revised
Agreement -- one that will, I hope, quickly gain consensus among Community members,
Chapters, and other Wikimedian stakeholders.
I hope to have the revised agreement in front of you by the end of the month -- with luck,
I'll have something to you before then. Thank you for your patience -- although I
imagine there will be discussion about particular aspects of the new revised Agreement, I
also think it will be apparent to everyone how much work we put into making the Agreement
a better one.
And, again, thank you for your feedback in Berlin and afterwards -- it has been immensely
helpful to me in this process.
--Mike
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