Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
2009/10/16 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir : > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:04 PM, John Smith wrote: >> I was asked this off list because the draft rules didn't stipulate, >> but the current draft is based on the Model Rules published by the >> Dept of Fair Trading NSW. >> > Looks good. I just had some questi

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-10-16 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:04 PM, John Smith wrote: > I was asked this off list because the draft rules didn't stipulate, > but the current draft is based on the Model Rules published by the > Dept of Fair Trading NSW. > Looks good. I just had some questions on process: point 21.9 says "Meetings ma

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-10-16 Thread John Smith
I was asked this off list because the draft rules didn't stipulate, but the current draft is based on the Model Rules published by the Dept of Fair Trading NSW. I've added a note about this at the top of the document, if no one has any complaints about the draft is there any objection in registeri

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-30 Thread John Smith
2009/9/20 John Smith : > https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZf0jIYShBc0ZGNicXR6OXZfMGdoOGsycGZi&hl=en I've made some more tweaks to the above document, I've also had some private emails from people indicating they think this is a good idea and we should start thinking about taking the next move.

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-20 Thread John Smith
I'm wondering at this point in time if the Dept. of Fair Trading in NSW made it intentionally difficult to do your own association rules, they don't provide a .doc version of their model rules, just a pdf file. I'm doing up a google doc version of their file, let me know if you want edit rights an

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-19 Thread John Smith
2009/9/19 Liz : > Your company secretary will have to reside in NSW, that would then be set. I'm going through the model rules atm, and part one covers this: secretary means: (a) the person holding office under these rules as secretary of the association, or (b) if no such person holds that offic

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-19 Thread John Smith
2009/9/19 Liz : > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote: >> So far no one has commented if one state is better to register an >> entity or not, cost wise it seems they are all very similar. Would >> anyone be against doing this in NSW at all? If so why? > Your company secretary will have to reside

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-19 Thread Liz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote: > So far no one has commented if one state is better to register an > entity or not, cost wise it seems they are all very similar. Would > anyone be against doing this in NSW at all? If so why? Your company secretary will have to reside in NSW, that would then

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-18 Thread John Smith
To date I haven't heard any opposition to starting an entity, and now with talk about the possibility of fund raising and purchasing sat imagery we need a legal entity to pursue this if people want to move ahead. So far no one has commented if one state is better to register an entity or not, cost

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-08 Thread John Smith
2009/9/8 James Livingston : > For example, I used to work for a small company which, amongst other > things, produced plots of the survival rates of trees in plantations, > so the owners would know if trees needed to be replanted and why they > were dying. Are they a commercial mapping entity? Th

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-08 Thread James Livingston
On 03/09/2009, at 9:02 PM, John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/3 James Livingston : >> * What exactly does "commercial mapping entity" mean for the purposes >> of 4? > > It's very clear if something has not for profit status based on their > governing rules. While it's quite clear what "commercial" means,

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-03 Thread John Smith
2009/9/3 James Livingston : > * Which Model Rules are these based on? It may have changed, but a > while ago there were subtle differences in Model Rules between states. Since the Wikimedia Australian Chapter is based in Vic I assume they are Victorian Model Rules. > * 21.3b says there are two o

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-09-03 Thread James Livingston
On 25/08/2009, at 7:46 PM, John Smith wrote: > I've setup a brief outline for setting up an Australian chapter page > here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Australia > > I've also taken the association rules from the Wikimedia association > of Australia and mod

Re: [talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
I've updated the LC Australia page, I have no idea what people would be willing to pay to join so I flipped a coin and put it initially at $20/yr or $10/yr for concession holders. This is half the amount wikimedia australia has for membership fees and I can't figure out from their website where

[talk-au] Draft association rules + LC page

2009-08-25 Thread John Smith
I've setup a brief outline for setting up an Australian chapter page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Australia I've also taken the association rules from the Wikimedia association of Australia and modified it for use with OSM-F. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w