Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership applications for Wiki UK Limited are now being invited!

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Bimmler 
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 WMF is completely separate, I don't think accepting donations to them
 in exchange for membership of the chapter is a good idea.

Yes, yes, yes. Linking chapter membership to WMF donations is, in my
opinion, even worse than wholesale redirect of donations. It's maybe
not illegal (I presume a board is entitled to set its requirements for
membership and options of payment relatively freely), but it sends
very dangerous signs about the degree of, well, connectedness of the
two organisations. You want to avoid this, *especially* in the UK with
its current libel legislation...

Michael



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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership applications for Wiki UK Limited are now being invited!

2008-11-27 Thread Gordon Joly 
At 14:04 +0100 27/11/08, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  At 20:51 + 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
On 20 Nov 2008, at 17:25, Gordon Joly wrote:

   At 15:50 + 20/11/08, Michael Peel wrote:
   Ian,

   On further investigation, a bank account is not needed to open a
   paypal account, but it is required to withdraw funds from the paypal
   account.[...]


   But you can transfer to another PayPal account of course!

True. Perhaps I should have said get the money off Paypal.

Mike


  The Foundation have a PayPal account



Yeah but ... well, I'm not going to patronise you here... but it would
be a bit boring if the only thing you could do with the money was to
transfer it to the Foundation, wouldn't it?  ;-)

It might also not look so good when you apply for tax exemption /
deductibility (I don't know whether British authorities really
scrutinize each applicant...but in Switzerland, something like this,
viz. only spending money by forwarding, would be a major obstacle for
the application to succeed).

Michael
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I couldn't possibly comment.

Gordo


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