Thomas Dalton, 06/07/2009 16:58: > In the UK there is a concept of an unincorporated > association where the association (which can have full charitable > status) isn't a legal entity in its own right and any agreements it > makes are actually made with the Board of Trustees as a group of > individuals but there is some kind of legislation that ensures > continuity - when the membership of the board changes, the parties to > the agreements somehow change (I didn't investigate this in much > detail because Wikimedia UK decided to go down the incorporated > route). That kind of association would work absolutely fine as a > chapter (the main disadvantage is that the board are personally liable > for the chapter's debts, including court ordered fines and damages)
Wikimedia Italia is an association more or less like that («associazione non riconosciuta» = without «personalità giuridica»). :-) Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
