Anthere wrote:
Section 1. POWERS. The powers of the corporation shall be exercised, its properties controlled, and its affairs conducted by a Board of Trustees to be comprised initially of five trustees. All trustees must be active (contributing or volunteer) or life members of the Foundation.
What is the difference between a corporation and a foundation ?
"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." is the name of a nonprofit corporation.
"foundation" is not, so far as I know, a formal legal term in the U.S.
When the next elections take place, will there be 2 trustees to elect, or 4 ?
2 -- a contributing member representative and a volunteer member representative
Do members have any other role than electing trustees to decide of everything for them ?
I don't like the phrasing of that question. The trustees no more "decide of everything for the members" than I have done traditionally.
Nothing about the foundation changes the way our culture is organized here, in which members -- editors -- do everything, as they see fit, within the bounds of our social norms.
--Jimbo