[Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters

[Birgitte SB]

--- On Tue, 5/6/08, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> From: Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 2:34 PM
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Jimmy Wales
> <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:> 
> >  and I can see an argument for
> >  each of them having their own legal organization
> (this seems better to
> >  me),
> 
> It's certainly better.  But there's a lot of
> paperwork involved.

Is ther really that much less paperwork than what is required to have elections for a national board?  Is the risk of sharing liabilty between the responsible group in X and foolish group in Y worth it less paperwork for X?  What if some group wants to do the paperwork and only be responsible for the actions their group takes; will they be forced to join in the national scheme?

Birgitte SB


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