EGM 2011
Wikimedia UK will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting on Sunday 16 October 2011 at Pendrel's Oak in London in order to pass a special resolution to change its Objects. The EGM is co-located with the 50th London Wikimeet as we have booked an additional room downstairs. See the blog post for the announcement.
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Agenda
Note that a brief board meeting to approve new members will take place shortly before the EGM. If you want to join at the meeting (rather than online or by post), then please come along early to make sure we get your application on time!
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 13.00 | Wikimeet starts | |
| 14.00 | EGM starts | |
| 14:00 | Roger Bamkin (Chair) | Introduction to the EGM |
| 14.05 | John Byrne | Update on our application to become a charity |
| 14.15 | Mike Peel (Secretary) | Discussion and voting on the Resolution |
| 14.25 | Chief Exec | Introducing himself; Q&A (TBC) |
| 14.45 | EGM ends; Wikimeet resumes | |
Resolution
- Also see
- EGM 2011/Notice
This motion is a Special Resolution and therefore requires a 75% majority of those members that are present or voting by proxy to pass. Please see the EGM Notice for information on how to vote by proxy.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION #1
THAT the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Wiki UK Ltd be altered as follows:
- in accordance with s.28 of the Companies Act 2006, clauses 1 to 6 inclusively of Wiki UK Ltd's Memorandum of Association shall be treated as provisions of the Wiki UK Ltd's Articles of Association and the said provisions shall be renumbered M1 to M6 respectively to avoid confusion with other provisions of the Articles of Association;
- by deleting Article M3 (previously Clause 3 of the Memorandum) and replacing it with the following new Article M3 (subject to such minor amendments to this Article as the Charity Commission may require for the purposes of registering Wiki UK Ltd as a charity):
- M3. The Objects of the Charity are, for the benefit of the public, to promote and support the widest possible public access to, use of and contribution to Open Content of an encyclopaedic or educational nature or of similar utility to the general public, in particular the Open Content supported and provided by Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, USA.
- “Content” means textual or numerical information, still or moving images, sound or music or other data disseminated on printed, electronic and other appropriate media and services. Content is subject to editorial policies and safeguards designed to ensure its overall accuracy and quality.
- Content is "Open" when it is available for no charge and without discrimination to the general public, with legal rights to view, copy, share, adapt, improve and otherwise use and reuse that content and when technical measures are in place to support such usage.
- by replacing the word “Object” with the word “Objects” in all instances that the word “Object” occurs throughout the Articles of Association.
- by adding the following new Article 29 to the Articles of Association:
- 29. These Articles are to be interpreted without reference to the model articles under the Companies Act, which do not apply to Wiki UK Ltd.
- If you have any questions about this resolution, please ask them on the talk page.
Attendees
If you are planning on coming, please sign up below so that we know how many to expect!
- Mike Peel
- MartinPoulter
- Roger Bamkin
- Andrew Turvey
- Fæ
- Chris Keating
- John Byrne
- Steve Virgin
- Richard Symonds
- Panyd
- Richard Grafen
- Thomas Dalton
- WereSpielChequers
- HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?
- Diane Cabell
- James Farrar
- Apologies
Metadata
(Emits hCalendar microformat)
- Wikimedia UK EGM 2011
- Pendrel's Oak, 283-288 High Holborn, Holborn, Greater London WC1V 7HP
- 20111016T1400+01:00-20111016T1445+01:00