On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 12/27/2012 07:38 AM, Sébastien Santoro wrote: > I don't see the bureaucratic burden you mention. The tough part of creating > a Bug Squad team is to recruit the people and keep them active as a team. > Formalize that as a MediaWiki Group is just an extra mile that takes > adapting a couple of existing templates and answer a couple of potential > questions.
To create a non-profit organization for a bug squad team is something I would qualify of "bureaucratic burden". This is a requirement of the Affiliations Committee (previously the Chapters Committee). Here an extract from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requirements_for_future_thematic_organizations "The thematic organization must have a legal structure/corporation that is legally independent from the Wikimedia Foundation. Thematic organizations are meant to give a real-life structure to projects that might arise from contributors or external parties in line with the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, thematic organizations are not meant to operate the Wikimedia projects nor to be legally responsible for the content of the projects. In order to achieve that, it is necessary that the legal structure chosen for the creation of a thematic organization is clearly independent from the Wikimedia Foundation." -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
