[Wikipedia-l] Re: Bylaws V
Anthere
anthere8 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 24 15:08:27 UTC 2004
Jimmy Wales a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
>
>>Section 1. POWERS. The powers of the corporation shall be exercised, its
>>properties controlled, and its affairs conducted by a Board of Trustees
>>to be comprised initially of five trustees. All trustees must be active
>>(contributing or volunteer) or life members of the Foundation.
>>
>>What is the difference between a corporation and a foundation ?
>
>
> "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc." is the name of a nonprofit corporation.
>
> "foundation" is not, so far as I know, a formal legal term in the U.S.
>
>
>>When the next elections take place, will there be 2 trustees to elect,
>>or 4 ?
>
>
> 2 -- a contributing member representative and a volunteer member
> representative
>
>
>>Do members have any other role than electing trustees to decide of
>>everything for them ?
>
>
> I don't like the phrasing of that question. The trustees no more
> "decide of everything for the members" than I have done traditionally.
>
> Nothing about the foundation changes the way our culture is organized
> here, in which members -- editors -- do everything, as they see fit,
> within the bounds of our social norms.
>
> --Jimbo
Good. I will see if other questions are to be reported on the french
side later on :-)
Good week end to all of you :-)
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