Agenda 7Dec10/Chair's Report

Outstanding actions

Andrew:

• AT to judge BLW prizes
• AT to respond to ORG re their grant application
• Andrew to see if there is interest in Wiki Takes Liverpool amongst local Wikimedians
• AT to send BLW domain name renewal invoice to TD to pay.
• AT to update Companies House with TD's new address.
• AT to investigate the situation with paying VAT on Liam's pay.
• AT to go forward with Wikipics/usability (see 2010 Budget)
• AT to contact WMDE about how we spend the toolserver-allocated money
• AT to talk to a partner at the lawyers regarding the best approach to the charities commission letter, which has not yet reached a final state.
• AT to contact TD regarding getting a quote from our payroll company now appointed for BACS bureau/direct debit
• AT to talk to TD about giving CM access to view the paypal account.
• AT to contact lawyers to confirm the WMF's lawyers advice/approach, and also the reporting requirements
• AT and SV to contact CIPR contacts to ask for their views/experiences with soliciting donations via newspaper adverts.
• outstanding expenses: CM interview; CIPR

Office Manager:

• SV and CM to draft letter to FTSE 100 companies asking for donations
• AT and TD to revisit the annual report, updating actions and setting things going to produce this.
• AT and TD prepare a report for the WMF chapters grant, for email approval, and to approach the Foundation to extend the grant