On Tue, September 23, 2008 11:44, Ross Gardler wrote:
Gordon Joly wrote:
Not sure why we don't just clone the old MoA
and AoA...
Were they put together with legal advice?
Were they at the root of any of the problems V1 encountered?
AIUI there are a number of changes required to the new AoA/MoA as a result
of Charity law/registration changes, although these are probably mostly a
matter of detail not major rewrites.
The WER documents caused no problems whatsoever, indeed they were
specifically designed to permit everything we might require, maintain
control in the hands of the editing members (should anything awful
happen), etc.
I re-wrote them from the initially proposed documents from long experience
with designing and implementing such things (and multi-national contracts
too) and then agreement with the WMF. I am not a lawyer on paper but I
used to take my company law handbooks to bed with me for reading (and not
to fall asleep to!) and would be happy to cast an eye over the proposed
documentation and point up any issues there might be.
In terms of informed advice we (OSS Watch) can help too. But without
someone willing to stick their professional neck on the line any
solution is sub-optimal (not necessarily a blocker).
Ross