[Wikipedia-l] Re: Bylaws V

[Anthere]

Jimmy Wales a écrit:
> 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

Good. I will see if other questions are to be reported on the french 
side later on :-)

Good week end to all of you :-)