Agenda 4Jan11/Chair's Report

A full list of Charles' activities is shown here.

Main acheivements are:

Redrafted charity response received; sent diagram; to respond to other queries Carried forward
Liased with accoutants re transfer of files to them Carried forward
Judged BLW prizes (my selections made, some final reconciliation outstanding) Carried forward

AT to send BLW domain name renewal invoice to TD to pay. Carried forward
AT to update Companies House with TD's new address. Carried forward
AT to go forward with Wikipics/usability (see 2010 Budget) Carried forward
AT to contact WMDE about how we spend the toolserver-allocated money Carried forward
AT to obtain a quote from our payroll company now appointed for BACS bureau/direct debit Doing...
AT to talk to TD about giving CM access to view the paypal account. Doing...
AT to contact lawyers to confirm the WMF's lawyers advice/approach, and also the reporting requirements Doing...
outstanding expenses: CM interview; CIPR Carried forward
AT and TD to determine the precise amount from the 2009 fundraiser to be given as a general operating grant to the WMF; AT to obtain legal advice on the grant in written form and draft a form of agreement with the WMF.
AT to go over the five survey quotes obtained by SV.
AT to investigate phone conferencing facilities as substitute for Skype conferencing.
AT to append a banner to the bottom of the donor privacy policy page linking to the marked up version showing the changes from the Foundation's version.
AT to follow up with CM about information presented to the board about new membership applications.
AT to report the Board's view on chapter-foundation reporting issues to Sue Gardner.
AT to go back to the lawyers to ask for a letter confirming the advice with transferring money to the Foundation.

Office Manager:

AT and TD to revisit the annual report, updating actions and setting things going to produce this. Carried forward - until after accounts received
AT and TD prepare a report for the WMF chapters grant, for email approval, and to approach the Foundation to extend the grant Carried forward - until after accounts received
CM with SV to progress the newsletter via a concise text version with links and a wikitext version on the UK wiki as target for those links, as a matter of urgency.
CM to send the "congratulations" mails out for newly approved members, after weeding out a small number of duplications from the past.

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