Reports 27Aug11

Below are the Board reports to the Board Meeting on 27 August 2011; see Agenda 27Aug11.

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Roger Bamkin (Chair)

Done recently

Actions

• RB to talk to Terence about how the ownership of QRPedia can be transferred to WMUK by the end of the year.

Upcoming

Mike Peel (Secretary)

Done recently

• Reports/2011/July - next up Reports/2011/August.
• Reported abuse to the Guardian regarding someone using 'wikipedia' as a username to comment on their articles [1]

Membership approvals

Tasks to do

• Closing off Britain Loves Wikipedia Carried forward
• Sort through / close off old email addresses
• Update blog to use Vector skin [2]; specify license (the standard CC-BY-SA?) Carried forward (ideally needs tech person)

Actions

• MP to offer OTRS access to specific known and trusted volunteers Carried forward
• MP to come back to the board with a revised microgrants process. Doing... (discuss in AOB)
• MP to add text of vision and mission to the Minutes 11Jun11 Done
• MP to upload the 11Jun11 in-camera minutes and circulate them to the board for approval. Done

Andrew Turvey (Treasurer)

Activities to report

Discussion / review items

Actions

1. AT to contact Charity Commission requesting a meeting (top priority)
2. AT to arrange internet banking for MP, RB and AT Doing...
3. All to produce a short profile for the website and to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'. Carried forward
4. AT to complete and send charity reply to lawyers Carried forward
5. 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...
6. 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
7. AT to add RB as signatory and remove TD Carried forward
8. AT - Staff roadshow Carried forward
9. AT to investigate how we can move to multiple signatories for large transactions. Doing...
10. AT to investigate debit cards for bank account signatories. Doing...
11. 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
12. AT to investigate term deposits and return to the board with options. Carried forward
13. AT - Sign NMM MoU (Monday) N --> transferred to MP & CK
14. AT - In camera minutes of 2 February 2011 Carried forward
15. AT - written legal advice onto wiki Carried forward
16. AT to circulate results from WikiConference survey once complete
17. AT to work on the overdue fundraising reports
18. AT to contact lawyers regarding how a cap on growth in the fundraising agreement with the WMF affects our independence.
19. AT to prepare a new budget reflecting the costs of the new profile of staff recruitment
20. AT to phone the co-op regarding the bank transfer of the WMF grant
21. AT to discuss financial regulations with the co-op bank, particularly with regards the transfer of signatories after the AGM.
22. AT to investigate alternative banks, with a recommendation to be made at the in-person board meeting
23. AT to talk to Chris Keating with regards advertising the availability of sponsorship for Wikimedia
24. AT (or CK) to contact the WMF to see whether they have any recommendations for international Wikimedians to sponsor
25. AT to request a quote for insurance for board members against the risk of personal liability and negligence.
26. AT to follow up outstanding payment of previous office manager with payroll.
27. AT to take text from the strategy document, polish it, and circulate it to the board prior to it being sent around to chief exec applicants.

Chris Keating (Director)

Report

Review of upcoming fundraising-related deadlines

Actions

Sort out print items to support outreach (carried over)

Martin Poulter (Director)

Recent activity

Coming soon

Actions

• Next steps for Wikimedia Universities Programme (next few weeks):
  • Pages on WMUK site explaining opportunities and calling for action: include public record of actions taken & in progress
  • Three-tier information structure: 1) a small team co-ordinating activity across the sector; 2) an advisory board of people not involved day-to-day but kept in the loop; 3) a wider mailing list of interested educators, students and support staff, sent occasional announcements or personal contact.
  • Invitations to educators: build mailing list and roster
  • Launch event(s) in a suitable institution and related publicity
• Follow up on business cards
• Look into a team for a training event for Food Standards Agency in Autumn (arranged by SV)
• Log into OTRS
• MLP to contact Vineesh to talk about the freshers fair at Imperial, to provide two-way input.

Fæ (Director)

Report

Actions

• (TBA) The Strategy Workshop results should be incorporated into the WM-UK wiki, this may be useful to time with further announcements about an EGM if needed to support transition to charity status.
• Fae - Add general simple guidelines to the WM-UK wiki defining what travel expenses WM-UK are prepared to cover for volunteers supporting events.
• All - Better solution needed to how we regularly pick up emails to OTRS. We recently missed a request for interview with the BBC WRT NOTW situation.

Steve Virgin (Director)

Report

Actions

• Priority - managing the ARKIVE/University of Bristol processes In progress - need to coordinate with martin