2009/3/19 Michael Bimmler <[email protected]>: > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> If we win the bid, there are all kinds of legal stuff we'll have to >> sort out - if everything will be done through us (rather than WMF), >> which I think is likely, we will need to open a trading subsidiary. > > Do we know how other Wikimania organising teams did this (....Delphine...?) > > I can't remember having heard of any local trading company having been > opened anywhere for this. Was it not usually the WMF that would have signed > contracts if necessary? > See also eg. http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact > "Wikimania is a yearly international conference organised by the Wikimedia > Foundation."
Yes, I think WMF has handled it all in the past, but I think it might be easier if we do it. The WMF won't get the same charitable benefits that we do. Opening a trading subsidiary may become necessary at some point even if we don't need it for Wikimania - for example, if we sell more than £5000 worth (that's income, not profit) of chapter merchandise in a year (that's a lot of merchandise, I know, I think big!) we would be taxed if it didn't go through a subsidiary. We also have plans for annual UK conferences (combined with our AGMs) - if those get big enough to involve significant business risk, they would need to go through a subsidiary as well. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
