2008/9/8 Andrew Turvey <raturvey(a)yahoo.co.uk>uk>:
* The initial Board will have 3-5 members
* The initial Board will serve only until the AGM
The first point here is a good estimate. This "initial board" isn't a
board in so far as they are a type of steering committee. You want to
have a focused group of people who are going to be dedicated to
getting this group up and running. Also, there aren't a lot of tasks
that can be performed in parallel at this time: paperwork and
applications are single person jobs, and frequently can only have one
name on them, if not a small but finite handful. 3-5 members is a good
default, and I personally recommend it.
Also, since the "initial board" isn't really a board at all, they only
serve until the first AGM when a real board is elected by the
community.
* WM-UK will be a Company Limited by Guarantee
There has been a lot of discussion about this here on the list.
Apparently, in the UK this is the best path for young charity
organizations to follow (I don't know enough about UK law to recommend
for or against it, but I know people have been talking about it).
* The name will be "Wiki Information
Network"
In the end, the name will be whatever the person filling out the form
writes down on paper. What your official legal name is doesn't matter
so much anyway, since we're all going to call you "Wikimedia UK".
--Andrew Whitworth