[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland

Tue Apr 12 15:06:58 UTC 2005

Hi,

Le Tuesday 12 April 2005 16:02, Dariusz Siedlecki a écrit :
> I've wanted to inform everyone who isn't aware yet, that the Polish
> Wikimedia community started to plan the upcoming of the Wikimedia
> Poland community, which would act as a local chapter to the Wikimedia
> Foundation.

Welcome to Wikimedia Poland. ;o)

> Right now, we're gathering info and informing users on the good and
> the bad sides of having a more "legal" way of operating the Polish
> projects.
>
> We need at least 15 interested people to start the organization. We
> won't spend almost any money on start, apart from some basic
> registration fees (a few dollars) and a domain - Wikimedia.pl.
>
> The current list of people interested in founding the organization is
> listed over on meta, to be more precise, here -
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Polska#Lista_ch.C4.99tnych
>
> We haven't informed the local communities on anything yet. First we
> want to gather more info, and when we'll actually have the first real
> participants and some words of courage, we'll post the info on every
> local village pump in every project.
>
> Now, my only question is, what should we exactly do after registering
> our organization, to become a local Wikimedia chapter?

I think this has to be written in the bylaws.
Wikimédia France is a legal representant of Wikimedia Foundation Inc. in 
France, as defined in the bylaws.

AFAIK, Wikimedia Deutschland has chosen a less formal status.

> I'll try to inform foundation-l on any new progress as soon as it happens.

Regards,

Yann
Secretary of Wikimédia France

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