IMy thoughts: I'd go with posting minutes on wikimedia.or.ke as well (regardless whether we do it on meta or not) Alex On 4/18/12, Ann Njeri <njeriannk(a)gmail.com> wrote: as know _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

-----Original Message----- From: Manuel Schneider [mailto:manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch] Sent: 19 April 2012 09:26 To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter. Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board minutes Hi Ann, dear board, I wonder why you don't publish that information on the Wikimedia Kenya wiki? That's your website, it's a wiki (hence easy to update / publish) and it's the central place where everybody looks at. If you need a private place - both WMAT and WMCH have and need that - you can have a seperate board wiki there which we can interconnect with the public wiki. That way you only need one useraccount for both and only sign in once, you can also use the uploads from the public wiki in the private wiki as well. The access is seperated by usergroups which you can manage on your own. I definitely discourage to post official information on Google Docs for various reasons. It is a great tool to work short term on a specific content but once it is ready it should be copied to an official place. * not everyone has a Google account and forcing people to get one is contrary to transparency * it is very hard to find the content. you need to post links somewhere at a central site anyway, so you can directly post the content there and avoid the other problems. * Google Docs is free, however you never know for how long nor do you have a guarantee the contents you posted there will be there tomorrow. * I would not want to provide Google (or any other business) private information about my organisation, just as a principle. Just build a structure for your content on your wiki - at WMAT for instance we have made an "Archive" page which is used as a list (divided by years) of subpage links where we have all information for our members - reports, board resolutions, contracts: * http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Archiv Of course there are many other good ways to deal with that, I just wanted to give you an idea. If you need a board wiki please contact me. /Manuel Am 18.04.2012 22:06, schrieb Ann Njeri: -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

Hi members, am also in support of the board posting minutes on the WMKE site ,the issue of restricting access of whatever was discussed & voted is kinda, for lack of a better word, retrogressive .The so called passive members ought to be encouraged to participate in future projects not locked out of the on goings ,To the board >>> i think you stand to gain my confidence as a "voting member" more if you embrace transparency & accountability , my thoughts! Branton On 4/19/12, Oliver Stegen <info(a)oliverstegen.net> wrote: you up access anyway!). minutes This the we _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake