Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-11 Thread Gordon Joly
At 20:20 +0100 10/5/09, Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/5/10 rupert.thurner rupert.thur...@gmail.com: would it be possible to slightly adjust your bylaws and add education as most other wikimedia chapters do? Adding something won't help at all. The objects have to be *entirely* charitable. If there

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-11 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/11 Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com: So... the WMUK 2.0 objects were formulated to enable a registered charity to be formed, constrained by the relationship with Foundation, and of course UK company law (since a decision was made to form a company - not all registered charities are

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Turvey
- Original Message - From: rupert.thurner rupert.thur...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 10 May, 2009 20:12:30 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting would it be possible to slightly

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Bimmler
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: We would also need the Foundation to approve the change which could take months. Hmm...? If I remember correctly, Chapters Committee has always been very informal about this IF a chapter even notifies us of a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-10 Thread rupert.thurner
On May 6, 11:35 pm, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: 2. HMRC response a. Media The rejection of our charity application was picked up by the Register who used the occasion to write an article criticising Wikipedia. We issued a statement in response to Wikinews. A news

[Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Turvey
Please find below the draft minutes of yesterday's Board meeting. If you have any questions, comments or corrections please post to the talk page on the wiki at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/Talk:2009-05-05 or reply to this email. Regards, Andrew Turvey Secretary, Wikimedia UK