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*What are the benefits of membership?
:*Part of the democratic process
:*Is it against the ethos of the Wikimedia movement to have a special class of people?
*Co-option of trustees
:*Are members going to get opportunities to meet potential trustees? Get them to wikimeets?
*There are huge value in meeting face to face
*We have subjective measurement, what about quantitative measurement? We need KPIs!
*We have discussed actions levels, and missions levels – X years plan need goals level
*Are the targets SMART & achievable. Are they specific?
*Distinction between strategy and specific action
*Some goals may change, but some will always exist like diversity, sum of all human knowledge, etc.
*We have a capacity problem, which affects our plan in the future.
*5 year plan doesn't fix us on a specific course, we can use it as a rolling program of review.
*There's a distinction between Foundation's objects compared that to WMUK.
*Breaking boundary
*WMUK is intrinsic part of Wikimedia community
*Look forward 5 years, but be able to adjust change in environment. The community haven't behave in a corporate way. The charity has a habit of becoming a bit corporate. Be careful to avoid becoming completely corporate. Involve volunteer in our activities and actions.
*5 years ago, WMUK didn't exist. We changes very quickly. We should do a rolling program of review to change 5 years plan.
*We can think in parameters – e.g. do we want to carry on growing staff level?
*Long term planning is not about predicting, it's about what we want to achieve.
*We can always change a 5 year plan into a 3 or 10 years plan in the future while keeping the same goals.
*Can we learn from WMDE's lessons?
*Avoid splitting the chapter community and that of the Wikimedia community.
*Potential metric might be how many things has happened without staff involvements.
*We are volunteer focused, but there may be things that we would like to do that no volunteer will or want to do.

== How are we doing with transparency? ==
*Lots of material is available, but work need to be done curating the information, making it accessible to tech etc. community, not just Wikimedians. Communicate our goals.
*Are information being lost in the sea of information that's available? Do we want to release targeted information and only make the rest available for reqeust?
*WMUK is clear we're looking for people, but not being very prescriptive in what it is looking for.
*Instead of focusing on what you don't like, we should focus on what we do like.
*We need experienced people to focus on strategy.

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