Talk:Memorandum of Association

The old goals were:

\begin{enumerate}
\item to enable, assist, promote and promulgate wider participation in
the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational
resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons,
everywhere;
\item to further the development of electronic, printed, and other resources
required to support such participation;
\item to produce, publish and develop, or cause to be produced, published
and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other
forms;
\item to make use of or encourage the use of information resources for the
advancement of education;
\item to encourage the adoption of practices and policies to widen education,
participation and dissemination of information worldwide; and
\item to undertake and carry on any other business which may seem to the
Company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with any of
the above specified objects, or calculated directly or indirectly to
enhance the value of or render profitable any of the Company's property or
rights.

\end{enumerate}

I think we should explicitly mention Wikimedia in the goals, in addition to more general goals. It is important that the goals be pretty general so we aren't unnecessarily restricting what we can do. Please make suggestions below (I will make my own at some point). --Tango 00:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Charity considerations

Note that to register as a charity in the future these objectives need wholy toward one of the listed charitable purposes,[1] almost certainly "The advancement of education" in our case.

Also they must be toward the "public benefit", which is a quite technical test.[2] These Objects would have to checked against the Charity Commission document in detail. But in summary they are:

• Principle 1: There must be an identifiable benefit or benefits
  • Principle 1a It must be clear what the benefits are
  • Principle 1b The benefits must be related to the aims
  • Principle 1c Benefits must be balanced against any detriment or harm
• Principle 2: Benefit must be to the public, or a section of the public
  • Principle 2a The beneficiaries must be appropriate to the aims
  • Principle 2b Where benefit is to a section of the public, the opportunity to benefit must not be unreasonably restricted:
    • by geographical or other restrictions or
    • by ability to pay any fees charged
  • Principle 2c People in poverty must not be excluded from the opportunity to benefit
  • Principle 2d Any private benefits must be incidental

In short, we need to be careful how they are changed. I suspect the originals were checked against these rules by the v1 project.

There are also rules about working internationally, and in particular giving money or other resources to bodies abroad (which might side-step the UK chartiable laws). So we have to be careful how we relate to the Foundation. [3] Rwendland 10:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Wiki text

Can we do this in wikitext please. LaTeX does not make for a nice editing experience. --cfp 00:38, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I can convert to LaTeX afterwards (this version is in LaTeX just because the v1.0 versions were and I copy and pasted!). Ignore the currently posted versions, I'm going to put new, plain text, versions up based on the new versions of the models (following the 2006 Acts). --Tango 02:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Cool OK. I wouldn't even bother to convert to LaTeX. It's the document writing equivalent of programming in assembly... --cfp 04:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

LaTeX is often the best way to get a well typeset document. What format would you use instead? --Tango 04:36, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh I'm a Microsoft whore. Ease of editing trumps tiny presentational quirks any day. But if you have moral objections to MS I guess Open Office is the next logical one, or in this case, direct save to PDF from wiki mark-up. --cfp 23:38, 2 September 2008 (UTC)