Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
* "Recognizing models of affiliation", and "Affiliations committee" are related to the movement roles project (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles) and are in response to that group's final recommendations. These resolutions recognize three new models for affiliated Wikimedia groups, and expand the mandate of Chapcom to cover these new models.
* "Organizational best practices" and "committee standards" are general best-practices documents that also are related to recommendations from the movement roles group; these are documents that we asked the Board audit committee and the Board governance committee respectively to develop.
* "Board governance committee charter" and "Amendment to Chapter Committee Rules of Procedure" both relate to creating or amending committee governing documents. The BGC is an internal board committee that deals with board appointments and evaluation; the chapter committee amendments update and clarify the procedure for appointing new chapters committee members.
* "Funds Dissemination Committee" asks the WMF executive director to set up a community-led funds dissemination committee structure for making decisions on movement-wide project funds allocations. "Fundraising 2012" is about chapter "payment-processing", i.e. chapter handling of donations to the Wikimedia project sites, and asks that only the four chapters who are currently payment-processing be allowed to do so until 2016. These recommendations are the conclusion to our lengthy discussion this year and last about fundraising, and are in response to the ED's recommendations on the subject.
* And, lastly, "Board of Trustees Voting Transparency" asks that the name of trustees be published with their votes in formal resolution votes.
Please don't hesitate to ask me or us if you have questions about these.
best, Phoebe (2011-12 WMF Board secretary)
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
- "Recognizing models of affiliation", and "Affiliations committee"
are related to the movement roles project (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles) and are in response to that group's final recommendations. These resolutions recognize three new models for affiliated Wikimedia groups, and expand the mandate of Chapcom to cover these new models.
- "Organizational best practices" and "committee standards" are
general best-practices documents that also are related to recommendations from the movement roles group; these are documents that we asked the Board audit committee and the Board governance committee respectively to develop.
- "Board governance committee charter" and "Amendment to Chapter
Committee Rules of Procedure" both relate to creating or amending committee governing documents. The BGC is an internal board committee that deals with board appointments and evaluation; the chapter committee amendments update and clarify the procedure for appointing new chapters committee members.
- "Funds Dissemination Committee" asks the WMF executive director to
set up a community-led funds dissemination committee structure for making decisions on movement-wide project funds allocations. "Fundraising 2012" is about chapter "payment-processing", i.e. chapter handling of donations to the Wikimedia project sites, and asks that only the four chapters who are currently payment-processing be allowed to do so until 2016. These recommendations are the conclusion to our lengthy discussion this year and last about fundraising, and are in response to the ED's recommendations on the subject.
- And, lastly, "Board of Trustees Voting Transparency" asks that the
name of trustees be published with their votes in formal resolution votes.
Please don't hesitate to ask me or us if you have questions about these.
best, Phoebe (2011-12 WMF Board secretary)
And one last resolution; there was a short delay in publishing while we talked to those affected. This resolution takes care of any outstanding open-ended provisional chapter approvals; there are currently only two such groups.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Revision_of_open-ended_Chapte...
best, -- phoebe
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