2008/9/6 Sam Korn <smoddy(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Ross Gardler
<ross.gardler(a)oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
I'm still concerned that it appears that
people are expected to sign up
to a legal entity that does not yet have any defined objectives. Maybe
I'm misreading something, maybe this board is an interim step to the
final legal entities board?
My impression is that what is currently being discussed is a committee
that will work towards incorporation. At the point of corporation,
there would be a board appointed.
I believe that the current discussion is about the former, not yet the
latter. I presume discussion of the composition of the latter will be
part of the interim committee's function.
If this is not accurate, perhaps someone would be kind enough to
correct me. If it is accurate, perhaps people could refrain from
calling it a "board" until that term is more technically accurate and
less confusing.
You're close. What we're electing now is the initial board. They will
do all the paperwork of getting incorporated and will be the initial
board of the company (you have to submit the details of the initial
board along with the rest of the documents when applying for corporate
status). They will then get charitable status, set up a bank account,
sort out the agreement with WMF and process membership applications.
Once they've done that (hopefully by the end of the year or the very
beginning of next year, but that's only if nothing goes wrong) they
will organise an AGM (Annual General Meeting, a yearly meeting that
almost all companies have which all members/shareholders are invited
to and are allowed to vote at). At that AGM, all the initial board
will resign and a new board will be elected by the membership (the
members of the initial board can stand for re-election if they want
to). That new board will then have a functioning framework which they
can use to start actually doing the activities of the chapter.