At 11:54 -0400 11/10/05, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
There is no reason why the Trustees should just
be from London, or
England, or Berlin. I believe UK charities can have appoint Trustees
who live outside the UK. I will check on this. But the majority would
have to UK residents.
I am a Trustee (board member) of Creative Commons International, which
is a UK Charity. To my knowledge, the majority of trustees on this
board are not UK residents. So there may be no such legal requirement.
OK.
Now, of course, given the purpose and meaning of
"Wikimedia UK" it would
be unnatural to have Trustees who are not either resident in the UK or
have some close personal connection to the UK (for example, Angela, who
happens to currently live in Berlin, but couldn't _possibly_ be more
English if she tried). But this will of course happen naturally enough
and so I see no reason to take special precautions in this area.
--Jimbo
I agree. At the moment the worry may be a perception hat "Wikimedia
UK" will be mainly people from London who meet in London.
Gordo (UK Citizen)
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