Meetings/2010-02-09

Wikimedia UK Board meeting Tuesday 9th February 2010, 8:30pm GMT on Skype

Present: Mike Peel (MP) (Chair); Andrew Turvey (AT) (minutes); Joseph Seddon (JS); Tom Dalton (TD); Zeyi He (ZH); Steve Virgin (SV)

Apologies: Tom Holden (TH)

Minutes

The Minutes of the meeting dated 2010-01-19 were approved.

Email decision

Since the last meeting, the board has agreed on email to ask for a quote from our solicitors for help with the Chapter Fundraising Agreement. AT will request - ACTION AT

Reports

The Chair's Report was noted. The draft blog post on Geograph images was approved. It was agreed there woudl be a jury of three people to judge the Britain Loves Wikipedia competition made up of:

1. AT representing WMUK ACTION: AT
2. Someone from MLA/V&A - MP will recruit ACTION: MP
3. Someone from Wikimedia Commons - JS will recruit ACTION: JS

Agreed to sign the Public Domain Manifesto following ddiscussion on the email list. MP will arrange to sign on our behalf - ACTION MP

The Collections Trust is arranged a meeting on 22 February about Linked Data - MP agreed to attend. ACTION MP

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