Sorry you're right - we only have to advise the Foundation of a change:

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_Agreement#Bylaws

Must be misremembering!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bimmler" <mbimmler@gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Monday, 11 May, 2009 23:49:42 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Minutes of yesterday's Board meeting

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Turvey
<andrewrturvey@googlemail.com> wrote:
> We would
> also need the Foundation to approve the change which could take months.

Hmm...? If I remember correctly, Chapters Committee has always been
very informal about this IF a chapter even notifies us of a bylaws
change. As a matter of fact, we hardly ever receive notifications of
bylaws changes (certainly none for not-mission/object-related changes)
and if we do, we generally look at it and if we're fine, we just
communicate it that way.

Read: There is no affirmative resolution needed by ChapCom, which
speeds up the process extremely.

Of course, if we received note (by the chapter or a 3rd party) of an
absolutely objectionable bylaws change, eg. change of the charity's
object to something unconnected to free knowledge, we might pass a
resolution recommending derecognition by the board.

Michael

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