Sent offlist by accident - can people please not click "Reply to all",
just click "Reply". Doing otherwise messes up the reply-to header and
emails end up going to the wrong people. Thanks.
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2008/9/6
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia v2 structure
To: Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>
There are no shareholders in a company limited by
guarantee (since there are
no shares issued).
I know - that was just a general definition of an AGM. There are two
types of private limited company, limited by shares or limited by
guarantee. We're going to be the later
The discussion of who should be the guarantor members
has been going on as
long as I remember! Some charities limit that membership to the trustees,
and some do not, and I am a member and a trustee of both types of charity.
There's been discussion about it? I thought it was universally
accepted that membership would be open to the community (exact
definitions may be negotiable, but the basic principle is already
determined - the WMF's guidelines for chapters say if possible the
organisation should have a membership structure open to the
community).