Reports 11Jun11

Below are the Board reports to the Board Meeting on 11-12 June 2011; see Agenda 11June11.

Templates for actions: Done, Carried forward, Cancelled.

Template to mark something as needing discussion: Discuss

Roger Bamkin (Chair)

Done recently

Actions

• Close out GLAMDerby - publicise Wright Challenge - help? Carried forward
• Organise face to face Board meeting in Birmingham
• Attend meeting in Vienna on behalf of WMF Galam May 16-17

Mike Peel (Secretary)

Done recently

• New board members now bureaucrats on the WMUK wiki. Tango has been de-bureaucrated (as per request at meta:Steward_requests/Permissions#Removal_of_access [1])
• Requested access to ComCom for MLP and CK - both of whom should now be subscribed.
• OTRS access updated so that the new board members have access (thanks to Casey).
• 20 'Welcome to Wikipedia' leaflets sent to the British Library
• Following a request to use the Wikipedia trademark in an Animal Planet TV show (originally sent to WMUK; passed on to the Foundation)
• Virtually attended the Wikimedia Foundation's Metrics and Activities meeting on 5 May
• Will be on a panel at the 'Investigating Academic Impact' conference at the London School of Economics on 13 June. "Panel 3: Innovative Approaches to Impact and Engagement", talking about Wikipedia.

Discussions needed Discuss

• Chapter reports (if not decided before the meeting)

Tasks to do

• Closing off Britain Loves Wikipedia
• Sort through / close off old email addresses

Things to keep track of

• Transfer of €4k to WMDE for sponsorship of the chapters meeting
• Returning of new Wikipedia banner from Trevor to Steve/Martin

Recent media coverage of Wikipedia in the UK

• Injunctions + info in the history of Wikipedia articles - enquiry from the Telegraph responded to by David Gerard. Covered by the Telegraph - then picked up by TNT Magazine, Tech Digest, Daily Mail, examiner.com, metro, and even Perth Now.
  • Also BBC article featuring interview with Jimmy Wales (with a correction requested by Gem, and made by BBC).

Actions

• MP to set up access to blog for board members, and admins on facebook. Done

Andrew Turvey (Treasurer)

Activities to report

Discussion / review items

Actions

1. AT to arrange internet banking for MP, RB and AT Doing...
2. All to produce a short profile for the website and to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'. Carried forward
3. AT to complete and send charity reply to lawyers Carried forward
4. AT to send a memento of our gratitude to the teller, outgoing board members, and speakers (excluding new board members), from WikiConference UK 2011 Doing...
5. AT to email around details of the interested candidate to be an office manager, and to also draft a blog post to advertise the position Carried forward
6. AT to add RB as signatory and remove TD Carried forward
7. AT - Staff roadshow Carried forward
8. AT to investigate how we can move to multiple signatories for large transactions. Doing...
9. AT to investigate debit cards for bank account signatories. Doing...
10. TD to give AT the password for the main paypal account. AT to give all board members read-only access to the paypal account. Carried forward
11. AT to investigate term deposits and return to the board with options. Carried forward
12. AT - Sign NMM MoU (Monday) N --> transferred to MP & CK
13. AT - In camera minutes of 2 February 2011 Carried forward
14. AT - written legal advice onto wiki Carried forward

Chris Keating (Director)

Report

Actions

• AT to send around detailed information about the facilitation for the strategy discussion; decision to be made by email. Fæ to look into background, and to pin down specific outcomes (with SV). CK has contacts in this sector; will ask for a competitive quote. Fæ to take the lead with this topic.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Martin Poulter (Director)

Report

Actions

• Investigate whether we could arrange a "pro-forma" adult education course for September on "Making your Wikipedia page" and how we might publicise

Fæ (Director)

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Actions

• AT to send around detailed information about the facilitation for the strategy discussion; decision to be made by email. Fæ to look into background, and to pin down specific outcomes (with SV). CK has contacts in this sector; will ask for a competitive quote. Fæ to take the lead with this topic.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Steve Virgin (Director)

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