EGM 2013

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Wikimedia UK will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting on Saturday 13 April 2013 between 15:30 and 16:30. The EGM will take place at the Conference Centre of the British Library in London, during GLAM-WIKI 2013. This EGM is being held to make a decision on whether to change the voting method used to appoint Trustees, and whether the Board should be expanded to include co-opted trustees.

Wikimedia UK EGM 2013 - In a nutshell When: Saturday 13th April 2013, 15:30-16:30 Where: British Library conference centre, Chaucer room, London What: Changes to the trustee election process and Board composition Cost: Free to attend. You need to be a member to vote. Sign up below. If you want to participate in the GLAM WIKI Conference, you would need to register here. Calendar: Download as an ics file to add to your calendar. Wikimedia Commons category: Category:Wikimedia UK

Agenda

Note that a brief board meeting to approve new members will take place shortly before the EGM - see Agenda 13Apr13. If you want to join at the meeting (rather than online or by post), then please come along early to make sure that we can process your application before the EGM starts. Paper copies of the application form will be available prior to the start of the EGM.

15:30-16:30

The outline agenda is:

1. Board meeting
2. Distribution of ballot papers to members (Tellers)
3. Explanation of the Resolutions (Secretary)
4. Q&A
5. Voting
6. Interlude
7. Announcement of the results of the votes (Tellers)

Resolutions

Also see

EGM 2013/Notice

Revision of election rules

Please see User:AndrewRT/Why change the voting system for the background behind this resolution

Whereas past Trustee elections (including the 2013 election) have taken place using the approving voting system,

Whereas this system has performed well in the past, but could be improved to allow voters to sufficiently discriminate between candidates.

This meeting resolves by Ordinary Resolution to switch to using a Single Transferable Vote system for future elections of Trustees, and resolves to adopt the revised Election Rules, which replace the existing Election Rules.

Revision of board composition

To come.

Attendees

If you are planning on coming, please sign up below so that we know how many to expect. In order for the meeting to take place, a quorum needs to be present either in-person or by proxy. Quorum is defined as 10% of the membership, or approximately 30 people.

1. Mike Peel
2. RexxS (talk)
3. Fæ (talk) (assuming no direct conflict with the GLAMwiki schedule)
4. Lodewijk (talk) 06:28, 16 February 2013 (UTC) (since in-person is probably not cost-likely, I will be there probably by proxy)
5. Johnbod (talk) 17:11, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
6. Probably. I will also be at the London meetup the following day and of course AGM attenders are welcome to stay over and join us. WereSpielChequers (talk) 18:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
7. I'll be at GLAM-WIKI, so I'll be around. -- KTC (talk) 23:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
8. Katherine Bavage (WMUK)
9. Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk) 13:15, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
10. Andrew Gray (talk) (around, at least - I can hardly escape!)

Metadata

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• Wikimedia UK EGM 2013
• British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB
• 20130413T1530+01:00-20130413T1630+01:00