At 15:22 -0800 1/12/08, AndrewRT wrote: >On Dec 1, 7:05 pm, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But really there are two: directors and members, surely? > >I suppose you could think about it like this, yes, but this could >confuse people. > >Legally speaking the members are the owners of the organisation, who >meet annually and elect the trustee/directors who manage the company >from day to day. > >You sometimes have organisations which have different classes of >membership - say one restricted class with a hundred votes per member >and another general one with one vote per member. That way the holders >of the restricted class stay in control of the organisation. I >understand Google has that kind of corporate structure. One charity I >acted for a while ago had a list of supporters but kept the actual >legal members to only the directors. > >You can choose the model that best represents what you want to >acheive. At the moment Wiki UK has just two levels - the Trustee/ >Directors and Members. > >_
I assert that that model is wrong. Maybe not for inception, but certainly for the future. Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
