[Foundation-l] Cary Bass as "Wikimedia US Affiliates Coordinator"

[Anthony]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious, and maybe this is the wrong thread, but can someone explain to
>  me the difficulty in setting up a US organization that is essentially a
>  Wikimedia membership chapter? I get the issues with trademark ownership
>  (although it seems you could solve that with a license of some sort) and the
>  issue of diverting donations, but what are the other impediments if any? I
>  set up a non-profit corporation in high school, it didn't strike me as that
>  difficult at the time.
>
>  If this has been discussed at length, as I'm sure it has, on meta - could I
>  get the link as well?
>
Two links which filled me in on a lot of the background for this thread are:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Chapters_Committee

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Letter_to_Chapters_Committee