On 10/10/05, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
It is noted that London is not the UK. Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Reading are also in the UK:-)
As is Cardiff. Pretty please?
Sam Korn
At 18:19 +0100 10/10/05, Sam Korn wrote:
On 10/10/05, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
It is noted that London is not the UK. Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Reading are also in the UK:-)
As is Cardiff. Pretty please?
Sam Korn
Well, yes. How many of you in Cardiff?
Cormac travelled to London for the meeting. The other three of us who attended on Sunday live inside the M25 (just about!).
Also, recall that we trying to bootstrap an organization that will be registered a charity in England and Wales. Personally, I would offer to be trustee for a short period and then resign. If Trustees are geographically centred on say Leeds, then maybe all the meetings should there.
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.
Gordo (East London)
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.
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
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)
On 10/10/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/10/05, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
It is noted that London is not the UK. Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Reading are also in the UK:-)
As is Cardiff. Pretty please?
Sam Korn
And as are Glasgow, Belfast etc. And the sooner Wikimedia_Ireland is set up to collaborate with this chapter the better.. I think a strong element of a chapter will be coordinating smaller, more local initiatives - see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Possible_projects_of_Wikimedia_UK
Cormac
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