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

On 28 Nov 2008, at 12:54, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Thanks for every1s time at the moment and things are doing well. >> If was >> simply an idea if we are stuck again for 18months without paying >> fees in. > > If that happens (in fact, if it's just 6 months), the board have > agreed to step dow

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

> Thanks for every1s time at the moment and things are doing well. If was > simply an idea if we are stuck again for 18months without paying fees in. If that happens (in fact, if it's just 6 months), the board have agreed to step down and allow someone else to try - it really shouldn't take more t

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

2008/11/28 Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 chapt

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

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

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

2008/11/28 michael west <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a credit crunch thought, but some of us don't like cheques sitting > ideal. A cheque that is cashed up2 a couple of weeks after I have posted it, > I can cope with, but a cheque that is going to be cashed months later isn't > a good idea. Instant

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Just a credit crunch thought, but some of us don't like cheques sitting ideal. A cheque that is cashed up2 a couple of weeks after I have posted it, I can cope with, but a cheque that is going to be cashed months later isn't a good idea. Instant transactions are the norm now and it is so easy to f

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

At 13:40 + 27/11/08, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > 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 appl

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

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, > >

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> 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 whet

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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

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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

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

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

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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! Gordo -- "Think Feynman"//

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At 10:03 + 20/11/08, Ross Gardler wrote: >Gordon Joly wrote: >> At 07:44 + 20/11/08, James Farrar wrote: >>> 2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid

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> Just to confirm, yes, anyone can be a member. I believe that you have > to be a resident / citizen in the UK if you want to stand for the > board, though (although I can't find anything saying this in the > AoA...?); otherwise you would be exactly the same as any other member. I don't think ther

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

Marco Chiesa wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: We'd need a bank account to use Paypal. It's something that we'll think about setting up once we have that... Just a little obvious comment here: not having a bank ac

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

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'd need a bank account to use Paypal. It's something that we'll > think about setting up once we have that... > > Just a little obvious comment here: not having a bank account was probably the biggest limitation WMUK 1 wa

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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. It may be possible to use this, temporarily storing the fees in the account prior to us having a bank account, but we may want to pass the fee

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

As far as I know, no bank account is needed to setup a PayPal account and use it to receive funds. Which is kind of true for cheques too, unless you are cashing them which would be a terrible waste of money (in fees...). Ian On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

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

On 20 Nov 2008, at 14:10, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2008/11/20 Ian A. Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I see the form has a field for $country: does this mean the overseas >> applications (of UK citizens or otherwise) are accepted? > > Yes, anyone can join, there are no residency or citizenship > re

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

We'd need a bank account to use Paypal. It's something that we'll think about setting up once we have that... Thanks, Mike On 20 Nov 2008, at 13:16, Ian A. Holton wrote: > A possible solution might be to setup a PayPal or similar account. > > Ian > [[User:Poeloq]] > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8

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the right to revoke their membership at that point.) Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oldak Quill Sent: 20 November 2008 14:19 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Membership applications for Wiki UK Limite

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

> Perhaps the form should optionally ask what the person's Wikimedia > alias is? This might help with contacting the person or engaging them > on-wiki... The board discussed that and decided not to. I'm not entirely sure why not (something to do with increasing our independence from the projects/f

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

2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All, > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wiki UK Limited is now > inviting membership applications! You can download the application > form in PDF format from: >http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ > Image:Wiki_UK_Ltd_membership_applicat

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

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/11/20 Ian A. Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I see the form has a field for $country: does this mean the overseas > > applications (of UK citizens or otherwise) are accepted? > > Yes, anyone can join, there are no res

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2008/11/20 Ian A. Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I see the form has a field for $country: does this mean the overseas > applications (of UK citizens or otherwise) are accepted? Yes, anyone can join, there are no residency or citizenship requirements. ___

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A possible solution might be to setup a PayPal or similar account. Ian [[User:Poeloq]] On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> Once we have a bank account, then we can start accepting some of > >> these other options. Until then, I

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

I see the form has a field for $country: does this mean the overseas applications (of UK citizens or otherwise) are accepted? Ian [[User:Poeloq]] On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wiki UK Limited is now

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

Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Once we have a bank account, then we can start accepting some of >> these other options. Until then, I think that just accepting cheques >> is the best approach. My apologies to those that don't have them. I >> thought that they were pretty standard from 16+, and people yo

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

> Once we have a bank account, then we can start accepting some of > these other options. Until then, I think that just accepting cheques > is the best approach. My apologies to those that don't have them. I > thought that they were pretty standard from 16+, and people younger > than that can norma

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

On 20 Nov 2008, at 07:44, James Farrar wrote: > 2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year >> standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid by cheque >> initially, although we hope to accept other forms of payment in th

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

Gordon Joly wrote: > At 07:44 + 20/11/08, James Farrar wrote: >> 2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year >>> standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid by cheque >>> initially, although we hope to accept

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

At 07:44 + 20/11/08, James Farrar wrote: >2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year >> standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid by cheque >> initially, although we hope to accept other forms of payment in the

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2008/11/19 Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Information is given on the form about membership fees (£12/year > standard, £6 for concessions); these need to be paid by cheque > initially, although we hope to accept other forms of payment in the > future. You really need to do something about tha