Agenda 5Feb11/Chair's Report

Outstanding actions

• Lawyers: Redrafted charity response received with diagram
• BLW prizes - final reconciliation outstanding
• AT to send BLW domain name renewal invoice to TD to pay. Cancelled (invoice has been paid. Mike Peel 21:14, 5 January 2011 (UTC))
• AT to go forward with Wikipics/usability (see 2010 Budget)
• AT to contact WMDE about how we spend the toolserver-allocated money
• AT to obtain 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
• outstanding expenses: CM interview; CIPR
• 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 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 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.
• 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.