[Foundation-l] A local chapter without Wikimedians

[Florence Devouard]

Michael Bimmler wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 5.     So far, no legal entity has been created and there is no such a group
>>> of Wikimedia representatives.
>> That's an interesting point that we seemed to be missing.
> 
> Yes. I somehow thought that Wikimedia Brasil had been incorporated
> between ChapCom approval.
> 
>> This is all
>> just at the planning stage so far? I don't see that we have any
>> serious problem then, this dispute simply means that more time needs
>> to be spent discussing the bylaws and achieving a consensus on them
>> before things move forwards (it's unfortunate that they were sent to
>> ChapCom before this was achieved, but it's not the end of the world,
>> you can start the process with ChapCom again from scratch if you need
>> to, I'm sure they won't mind).
> 
> Absolutely. Nota: The approval has already been granted, so if we
> determine that the entire committee is fine with the changes, we do
> not need to formally vote on it again and neither does the board.
> (If part of the committee is not happy, then we'd have to have an
> internal vote whether we shall issue a de-recommendation resolution,
> this being the only step we can take if discussion with the chapter
> fails, but this is highly unlikely)
> 
> So, it will just be ChapCom looking at it again and determining if it
> sees problems with it and possibly getting in touch with the chapter
> again, offering comments.
> 
> Michael


I think it is not appropriate that Wikimedia Brasil is listed (and 
described) as a non-profit organization if it is not yet incorporated: 
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters.

I also note that the website proposed is not working.

Ant