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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 08.03.2013 00:00, schrieb Clifford
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:21 PM,
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Having had a quick look for AoA on the web I wouldn't
say it is very common. I have yet to find an
example. The proposal begs the question as to why
would anyone want to be a member under the Act (i.e.
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I'm not a attorney nor do I have any familiarity with UK laws.
However searching for relevant documents, it appears to me
that if you want to be a member of OSMF, we need to provide
OSMF with our name and address. Looking at Amnesty
International United Kingdom AoA [1] I see the same
requirement. If any organization would want to keep membership
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"informal membership" or "supporting member" turns up a number of
hits.<br>
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For example
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Documents/About%20Us/Governance/Legal_information/DiabetesUK-Articles-of-Association_2011.pdf">http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Documents/About%20Us/Governance/Legal_information/DiabetesUK-Articles-of-Association_2011.pdf</a><br>
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At this point in time we are not proposing that the current "normal"
membership class be in anyway restricted, we are just proposing an
additional class. Note that a lot of organisations actually have
very limited formal membership and I suspect what you think of as
"AI" membership is completely informal (aka you fork the money over
and that is it).<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Personally I don't have a problem with
registering as long as there is limited liability to me as an
individual if OSMF closed its doors. Unless we have good legal
advise that membership does not require giving name and
address, then the only alternative is to organize in a country
with different membership requirements.</div>
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Membership according to the companies act does require full address
information, that is the reason that we are undertaking this effort
in the first place, no need to ask a lawyer for the umpteenth time.<br>
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IMHO (nothing I haven't voiced before) a UK company is less that
ideal for a mass membership organisation, and a lot of the stuff
that we are shoehorning on to the OSMF construct is a no-brainer in
other jurisdictions with appropriate incorporation forms. But we
need to get this issue off the table at last, down the road, one
day, somebody may have the guts to propose and carry out a
restructuring of the organisation, but that is not what is on the
table now.<br>
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Simon<br>
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