Hi, On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2) Membership drive: As we are now officially incorporated and hopefully > will soon be an official chapter we need to prepare for our launch and a > membership drive. 1600 Wiki editors list themselves as Canadians here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_Wikipedians A 150 have > added themselves on meta > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Canada/Participants Maybe I missed an e-mail to the list, but I haven't heard that we got an official response from the Government. Let me say, Congratulations to all who have made this possible! There have been many iterations to get from a few people with the idea to form WM Canada until now, when we actually have a legal entity. WRT the process Alan Walker is working on a website which will take online > registration. We have been thinking a nominal fee of $ 5 or 10 dollars to > cover mailing and stationary costs plus some web hosting. We are in the > process of setting up a bank account for Wiki Canada. This will take another > couple weeks yet as the bank needs to mail the paper work out to the > directors. Thus official registration will not begin until after this is > accomplished. > This was bantered back and forth years ago, if I recall correctly. I don't remember what the consensus was at the time, but my feeling is "less is better". Is there a link somewhere to the official Incorp stuff, and the structure that we will be adhering to? Thanks, Gerald.
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