Reports 19Nov11

Roger Bamkin (Chair)

• Attended Europeanna conference in Vienna. Report here. Video here
• Released video on Wright Challenge. 1,500 plays of Digg - thanks to Steve/Claire
• Supported Wiki Loves Monuments photo exhib in St Petersburg with QRpedia
• Supported Miro exhibition in Barcelona with QRpedia
• Spoke at Norwegian National Museums conference in Lillehammer
• On panel at Special Libraries Conference
• Organised (badly) extra room at EGM
• Liaised bith Barry re fundraiser and budget

Michael Peel (Secretary)

Split into roles:

Board

• Membership approvals - see in-camera report for list of names and locations. Members are being approved on a 3-weekly basis, unless there is a high number of applications. Richard is now dealing with applications and renewals on a routine basis.
• Need to know attendance numbers, and number of votes, for Annual Conference 2011 AGM Minutes (AT recorded these)
• commons:Commons:IUCN_red_list has become active again. Am in the loop on the discussions; this is being led by Gonçalo Themudo.

Grants

• Microgrants/Elections in Europe approved; funds spent; work in progress.
• Microgrants/Microphone needed approved, but the funds have not yet been spent.

Administrative

• Reports/2011/October
• Minutes 11Oct11
• WikiSym Scholarships - in the process of closing this off
• WikiConference India Scholarships - 4 scholarships offered (one partial). Ongoing (conference is this weekend).
• Need to reformat Microgrants to incorporate standard grants. Carried forward

Sysadmin

• Providing general tech support (webmail, fundraising, etc.)
• (With Chris) brainstormed the sysadmin and developer tasks needed for WMUK operations, and partially our mission. Discussing with JD.
• Action: Update blog to use Vector skin [1]; specify license (the standard CC-BY-SA?) Carried forward (ideally needs tech person; currently low priority)

Volunteer

• Pushing forward with Geocamp
• Closing off Britain Loves Wikipedia Doing... - two prizes now awarded, with the rest in progress

Andrew Turvey (Treasurer)

For latest bank transactions please see Bank Statements and Latest Transactions Report

The following areas require discussion:

• Proposal to reallocate and delegate some of the 2011 Budget
• International Payments mandates
• First donation to the Wikimedia Foundation
• Staff pensions
• Debit cards