On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
> > WM Portugal listed as "bylaws ready, discussing how to constitute"
> > since March.
>> I'm going a little off-topic here, but how does that work? Surely you
> need to know what form the chapter is going to take before you can
> draft bylaws? If they're doing things backwards, that might explain
> why they haven't got very far...
>
Could be a jurisdictional thing. Here in Florida I don't see a problem with
drafting the bylaws first and figuring out the exact organizational form
second. In fact, in some ways the bylaws can help suggest the proper
organizational form.