Hi All,<br><br>My real name is Tamás Mészöly, my nickname is Samat.<br><br>I contribute to Hungarian Wikipedia for almost 5 years as administrator and bureaucrat, where I was active in community activities, organizing programs, operating a bot, but I got interested more and more in PR and educating of Wikipedia and in relations between Wikipedia and other organizations, archives, governmental institutes etc. I am a founding member of Wikimedia Hungary and I was the executive vice president of the chapter in the first two year term.<br>
<br>Now I am the first (part-time) employee of our chapter as office manager (in practice from January 2012), and one of my task is helping out the Board (included our Treasurer).<br>
<br>I am an engineer, so I am not graduated or well-known in financial/accounting area, but I'd like to be well informed and I'd like to be familiar with thinking of WMF or best practices of other chapters. I hope this list help us getting closer.<br>
<br>My English is far from perfect, so I am usually shy and read-only on international lists, but if you have any question, I am here :)<br>
<br>Tamás Mészöly<br>User:Samat<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 02:20, Stuart West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stu@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">stu@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Now that we've had some time for people to sign up for the list (28 so far), let's kick things off. I'd like to start with something that's worked well on both the gendergap and developing countries lists: quick personal introductions and then description of why we're interested in this topic and what we hope to get out of the list.<br>
<br>I'll go first.<br><br>My name is Stu West and I'm a volunteer on the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees. I am the Board's Treasurer and chair of its Audit Committee. I've been involved with Wikipedia for about 5-6 years, and on the Board since early 2008. My day job is in Silicon Valley, where I've worked for private and publicly-traded technology companies in roles including CFO.<br>
<br>I'm really interested in governance/transparency/accountability issues for a few reasons. In my role as WMF Treasurer, it's my responsibility to focus on these. More broadly though, my personal point of view on Wikimedia is very long term. I'm really amazed at what our community has accomplished, and want to ensure we continue to have a huge and growing impact for the next 100 years. To do that, I think we'll need to give our community the best possible organizational/legal/governance support.<br>
<br>As for this list, I'd like it to be a place for high-quality sharing of ideas and best practices around governance/transparency in our movement. I hope we can attract a significant portion of the treasurers, finance staff, and even Audit Committee members. I hope it can be a great way for all of us to learn from each other and hope we can have lots of emails asking for advice/support/ideas from one another. Finally and most importantly, I hope we can use this list to plan Wikimania beers and other in person get-togethers.<br>
<br>Who's next?<br><br>-s<br><br><br><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Stuart West <<a href="mailto:stu@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">stu@wikimedia.org</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><b>New "treasurers" mailing list</b><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">November 10, 2011 12:15:12 PM PST<br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">"internal-l" <<a href="mailto:internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
</span></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">I set up a new public mailing list called <a href="mailto:treasurers@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">treasurers@lists.wikimedia.org</a> for discussing and sharing best practices in financial reporting and financial transparency across the Wikimedia movement. The primary intended membership is treasurers, audit committees, and finance staff of movement organizations, but the list is public and anyone interested in financial reporting and transparency is welcome. This list is archived publicly.<div>
<br></div><div>You can subscribe here:</div><div><a href="http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/treasurers" target="_blank">http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/treasurers</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please take a moment to forward this on to your favorite Treasurer or finance staffer. Thanks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(I thought about just using internal but decided against because a) there's lots of traffic on it already and b) i'm not sure all our various treasurers both subscribe to and read internal regularly.)</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:medium">===============<br>Stuart West</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:medium"><div>Board Treasurer</div><div>Wikimedia Foundation</div><div><a href="mailto:stu@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">stu@wikimedia.org</a></div>
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