I would agree with that. Maybe there is a need for "Friends of Wikimedia UK" membership? In the same way that you are a "friend" of your favourite charity e.g. The British Museum.
There already is, that's what Gordon was talking about. You can be a "member", which just means you pay some money each year and just generally support the chapter, like a "friends of" thing, or you can be a "guarantor member" which involves paying slightly more each year and gets you a vote at the AGM and means you can stand as director. It also means you are liable for up to £1 of the company's debts if it gets wound up (goes bankrupt).
If we go by the current way of how things are supposed to work, theoretically the current board members don't technically qualify to stand as directors by our rules. Where is the money for their membership going, now unless they are keeping the money in a piggy bank or a box buried deep in the garden, or are they simply are not paying it, if a company cant take membership then the directors can be no more a part of WMUK that than anyone else. We need to agree on some set rules on how we continue as a chapter instead of using rules that dont apply. We obviously cant pay membership so we need some other guidelines until that is possible. I think using some common sense as Delphine has suggested is the best way forward right now.
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:15:52 +0100> From: thomas.dalton@gmail.com> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] The status of Wiki Educational Resources as an official Wikimedia Chapter> > > I would agree with that. Maybe there is a need for "Friends of> > Wikimedia UK" membership? In the same way that you are a "friend" of> > your favourite charity e.g. The British Museum.> > There already is, that's what Gordon was talking about. You can be a> "member", which just means you pay some money each year and just> generally support the chapter, like a "friends of" thing, or you can> be a "guarantor member" which involves paying slightly more each year> and gets you a vote at the AGM and means you can stand as director. It> also means you are liable for up to £1 of the company's debts if it> gets wound up (goes bankrupt).> _______________________________________________> Wikimedia UK mailing list> wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK%3E http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
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At 12:15 +0100 14/8/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
I would agree with that. Maybe there is a need for "Friends of Wikimedia UK" membership? In the same way that you are a "friend" of your favourite charity e.g. The British Museum.
There already is, that's what Gordon was talking about. You can be a "member", which just means you pay some money each year and just generally support the chapter, like a "friends of" thing, or you can be a "guarantor member" which involves paying slightly more each year and gets you a vote at the AGM and means you can stand as director. It also means you are liable for up to £1 of the company's debts if it gets wound up (goes bankrupt).
Yes, that's what I meant when I said the member hold the liability.
I looked again at this page:
http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/membership
So, for 25 quid you can become a "Friend of Wikimedia UK" - is that correct?
The company in question is a company limited by guarantee, which aims to become a charity. I have asked in the past if the "guarantor members" will be allow to become "guarantor members" of the Charity. Not sure I recall the answer...
Gordo
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