Reports 11May13
Below are the Board, Staff and Committee action statuses and reports to the Board Meeting on 11 May 2013; see Agenda 11May13. (It is to be confirmed whether reports are requested for this board meeting or a later one. This report page does not yet include actions placed at the 9-10 Feb board meeting.)
Reports placed on this page will be provided to the WMUK trustees in advance of the meeting both/either digitally (via links to this page) and/or by paper (when requested by a trustee). The opportunity for other trustees to ask questions about these reports will be provided during the meeting. Anything that needs to be discussed, or needs a decision or resolution, should be included in the main agenda rather than being included on this page.
Please do not alter the 'outstanding actions' section except to update the current status of those. If you add or record any actions upon yourself that have not been raised in past meetings, then please add them under 'other actions'.
Please also see the in-camera reports and actions.
Templates for actions: {{done}} Done, {{cf}}
Carried forward, {{canc}}
Cancelled.
Please ask questions on the talk page.
Trustees
All trustees
- (17 Nov) All Directors to check if their details are current on the Register of Directors.
- (17 Nov) Board to clarify what reports are required for each meeting.
Done
- (17 Nov) Board to review the COI policy in the light of the recommendations of the governance review, due February 2013.
- (17 Nov) With SC leading, all to work on the general charter for committee with delegated powers from the Board of Trustees.
- (8 Jan) All to look at unapproved board meeting minutes and make comments as necessary.
- See /Minutes review
Chris Keating (Chair)
Report
Outstanding actions
Michael Peel (Secretary)
Report
Outstanding actions
- (9 Oct) MP to assemble a list of public and in-camera minutes which are ready for approval or have previously been approved, and set up a voting page on the office wiki to approve them and decide whether they should be made public or not. New in-camera minutes will be posted to the board wiki for now, and moved onto the office or public wikis as the board decides. Office to assist MP wherever possible.
Doing... see /Minutes review
- (17 Nov) MP to assemble a list of unapproved minutes to be approved at the next board meeting.
Doing... see /Minutes review
Fae
Report
Outstanding actions
- (30 Jun) Fæ/MP to add report deadlines to Board meetings.
- (30 Jun) Fæ and Doug to lead the assembly of the GLAM and education sub-committees respectively.
- (30 Jun) Fæ to update schedule of meetings to include telecons.
- (17 Nov) Fae to put forward supplementary rules for voting by the board of trustees and for committees to supplement the basics set out in the Articles of Association. (Post-meeting note: draft started at User:Fæ/Draft supplementary rules for voting.)
Doug Taylor
Report
Outstanding actions
- (30 Jun) Fæ and Doug to lead the assembly of the GLAM and education sub-committees respectively.
- (8 Sep) MP, DT, RB, SB to work through the outstanding issues with the Gibraltarpedia MoU.
- (17 Nov) The working party of JB, DT and SC to provide recommendations to the Board as to how to proceed with Wikimedians in Residence.
- (8 Jan) DT to find an independent volunteer to perform a short review of the TtT issues in time for Midas to be contracted for the event.
- (8 Jan) SC and DT to continue discussions about QRpedia with RB
Saad Choudri
Report
Outstanding actions
- (17 Nov) SC to include his declarations in the Declarations of Interest before the next meeting.
- (17 Nov) The working party of JB, DT and SC to provide recommendations to the Board as to how to proceed with Wikimedians in Residence.
Done - the recommendation of the 4 institutions to take forward in the first tranche (the aim of this working party) has been produced in November 2012.
- (17 Nov) SC to take a look at the Trustee DOI Review and soften it where needed.
- (8 Jan) SC and DT to continue discussions about QRpedia with RB
Staff
The Chief Exec is responsible for the reports under this section.
Reports
Outstanding actions
- (30 Jun) JD to ensure all trustees understand DOI policy, and that there is a statement of this on the UK wiki.
- (30 Jun) JD and staff to assemble a list of the key metrics for assessing the performance of the organisation.
Done
- (30 Jun) RS to report on Per Diems in September, as to if there have been any over-claims or any abuse of the system.
Done
- (8 Sep) KB (& others?) to work on a joining pack for new members.
- (8 Sep) JD to add section to the Representing Wikimedia UK policy about volunteer liability insurance.
- (17 Nov) KB to review whether vetting of members is needed, assess how other organisations do this, and provide a recommendation to the Board.
- (17 Nov) RS to implement the system of having a wiki page saying how much money is left in each budget and what is going to be coming out according to current plans in terms of projects and corresponding amounts.
Ex-treasurer actions
- (24 Jan) JB to talk to RS about the technical setup required for Sage. Information to be communicated to the WMUK tech list. RS is handling/has handled I think.
- (24 Jan) JB to report about changes implemented based on the last management letter and Garfield's letter at the next board meeting (in the treasurer's report).
Committees
Conference
- (30 Jun) HJM to provide a list of members of the Conference Committee.
Education
GLAM
- Women's Library @ LSE decided to defer their Wikimedian in Residence to 2014, when the institution has consolidated the Women's Library into the institution.