[talk-au] [OSM-talk] Local Chapters Call Today

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The good news, especially for the patient and
> keen Locals like Ivan, is that the OSM-F board agreed last
> Saturday that we could go ahead and start to form local
> chapters based on a provisional agreement.  The board felt
> - and I hope this is reflected by the community - that
> having one master agreement for all local chapters would not
> work and that the role of the Local Chapters group should be
> to negotiate an agreement with each local chapter that takes
> into account local specifics (like how hard it is to set up
> a non-profit in the USA or why Dutch groups can't have
> members and so on). 

Is the Australian wikipedia chapter's association rules suitable, with appropriate changes, to satisfy OSM-F?

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_Australia

http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Statement_of_Purpose

http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Rules