On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Sébastien Santoro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/27/2012 07:38 AM, Sébastien Santoro wrote: >> I don't see the bureaucratic burden you mention. The tough part of creating >> a Bug Squad team is to recruit the people and keep them active as a team. >> Formalize that as a MediaWiki Group is just an extra mile that takes >> adapting a couple of existing templates and answer a couple of potential >> questions. > > To create a non-profit organization for a bug squad team is something > I would qualify of "bureaucratic burden". > > This is a requirement of the Affiliations Committee (previously the > Chapters Committee). > > Here an extract from > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requirements_for_future_thematic_organizations
We advance on the topic. A MediaWiki group won't be a thematic organization but an user group. Formalities for user groups differ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requirements_for_future_user_groups "User groups may be incorporated, in which case, they must be legally independent from the Wikimedia Foundation. User groups are meant to give a real-life structure to projects that might arise from contributors or external parties in line with the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, user groups are not meant to operate the Wikimedia projects nor to be legally responsible for the content of the projects. In order to achieve that, it is necessary that if a legal structure is chosen for the creation of a user group, it should be clearly independent from the Wikimedia Foundation." And: "When the user group signs a trademark or grants agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, the contact person must be ready to provide their contact details and to be identified to the Wikimedia Foundation (for example by providing a copy or a scan of their ID to the Foundation)." So we're speaking about potential need to incorporation and potential trademark agreements. But this isn't a bureaucratic road. Okay... -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
