On 7/10/06, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/10/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
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As far as I'm aware there is no wikimeet scheduled. There probably
should be and if your diary for the summer looks anything like mine
it's not going to be easy to find a suitable date.
The general plan is to organise a meet once we are in a position to
admit members, not least because it will be easier to do this face to
face then via a series of emails, paper forms and other bureaucracy
zipping about the country. It's worth remembering that WER does not
exist to organise wikimeets. However, I would not object to
temporarily removing my directors hat to assist in organising one, as
long as people do not object to me regaining my headgear and
attempting to find members and voluntaries willing to help with some
of the projects once they arrive at the meet.
Gordo
Thanks Gordon,
It occurs to me that we need to have an AGM at some stage, in which we
will have to elect a (non-temporary) board of directors (same-as-now
if desired). When will this be? Is there a need for anything in place
before this happens?
IIRC, the first AGM has to be within 18 months of the date of
incorporation, and AGM's then follow each calender year and within 14
months. Clearly we are going to need members before we have an AGM
and I think we would also like some successes to report. As far as
membership goes, I circulated a plan to the other directors a couple
of weeks ago - I'm still waiting to find out they think it's workable.
This reminds me of another question I had: what's
the current update
on our bid for charity status? Has this happened? What can a volunteer
do, if it hasn't?
Last I knew James had almost finished the form.
Another occurrence: Wikimania is coming up next month.
Some of us will
be there (myself included) and I know that some committees/chapters
will be using that opportunity to hold non-online meetings about their
business. It would definitely be an idea to mull over such things
informally, possibly even start organising things like projects.. So,
who amongst us will be at Wikimania?
I'll not be there - but it would be good if some project organisation
could be done.
And on projects: are there any initiatives that anyone
wants to get
going, or would like to see going? Meta pages have hit a stagnancy,
sadly - this one could do with one of its regular revivals:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Possible_projects_of_Wikimedia_UK>.
Any other ideas floating around? Want to bring them down to earth?
It may be worth building something around the 2012 Olympics. I'm not
sure what though - get local schools to run pupil projects on each
sport maybe?
Cheers,
Andrew