thank you OP for being inspired by my idea, i would say a consortium/franchise/trade assosiation would work. i would also say that the trade association (as someone named it) should not be financially tied to a foundation.
we do not want a foundation that is filled with board members taking a cut of foundation donations, purely because they have a board members seat.
how it should work is the foundation is filled with coders successfully building a better protocol, PR guys WORKING hard with media to promote bitcoin and legal guys WORKING HARD lobbying parliament, HMRC (FCA/PRA).
i truly hope no one gets paid purely because they are a member, picking their nose and scratching their ass. as that breeds corruption and greed, instead of initiative, inspiration, evolution and other positive energies
Anyway to expand on this.
The kind of things what would need to be decided as a community are
Other things that spring to mind are
Mission statement
Goals
structure
timeline
Once those were agreed
The next stage would be to decide, as a community in the UK, what the roles would be and the skillset needed to fill it. From there people should submit applications to fill the role and the community should decide the best people to fill those roles.
Would perhaps be a good idea to form a membership based association based on one member one vote.
For my mind membership should be free for any UK resident wanting to promote the cause of bitcoin and then once a treasurer and association representatives were elected then discussions towards any kind of forward funding / fund raising should be made by the representatives and voted on by the member.
For any kind of success it would have to be a totally transparent democratic association, not a closed shop of peers.
