Talk:Reports 8Jan13

Clarification

Sorry, my fault for not being clear when communicating around this to Jon:

"2.6 The Christmas Break - Staff covered email enquiries. No phone messages left. OTRS queue 14 received, 2 spam."

This is not the OTRS queue per se - its the emails that come to Fundraising@ and Membership@. It was more like 7 received, 7 spam, they've all been addressed or are being worked on and have received a first reply. Thanks! Katherine Bavage (WMUK) (talk) 17:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

CE report

1. For decision
   1. Train the Trainers - this topic will be covered later in the agenda...
   2. 2013-14 programme - please provide the appropriate links here. I am concerned that not enough detail has been provided thus far. For example, the board costs budget still doesn't include a suitable breakdown of the costs per in-person or online meeting.
   3. WiR agreement - This has made good progress, but I remain unconvinced that the current draft agreement provides sufficient reassurances for us to fund more WiRs. I am looking forward to seeing Saad's second draft here.
2. For information
   1. FDC - the paperwork referenced here has not yet been shared with the board, unless I've been excluded from that circulation due to my COI.
   2. Planning - I note that we are now in our fifth year of operation ('09, '10, '11, '12 and now '13). Much more work needs to take place here to ensure that adequate community has taken place beyond Towards a five year plan 2013-18 - e.g. wikimediauk-l needs to be asked to provide input here, and the community that it represents needs to be in favour of the plan that is set out here.

Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:00, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Reports and structure of this "interim" board meeting / telecon

I believe that too much is being stacked up into an interim board telecon. I find the telecons hard to follow in comparison with the in-person quarterly board meetings. In the light that there has been no board pack, which should be prepared for the trustees a week in advance of the meeting, I suspect any of the more complex documents and policies will and should be deferred to the in-person meeting, for which there will be much better preparation and associated board reports. As a trustee, I am not prepared to start looking at documents presented only the day before the meeting, when I have several other urgent things to do. There is no definition of why there are such big differences between the formal quarterly meetings and the telecons, they appear to now be run quite differently, the lack of reports being a major difference, and so serve different purposes.

I find it hard to see how the actions from previous meetings are being closed off by some of the documents and reports being referenced. It would be smart for those accepting actions from previous board and exec working group meetings to formally report on these at each meeting, rather than leaving this implicit. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 23:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)