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Just seen in the report: "Next, we discussed what do to with the wikipedia.com portal, and agreed to the concept of setting up a specific portal, where we could explain more about the projects, about the Foundation, welcome services etc... all things to be discussed in length as wikipedians know perfectly to do."
I would strongly object to this. The principle of least surprise would tell us to continue using *.wikipedia.com simply as a redirect to *.wikipedia.org.
This is the most consistent behavior, and least likely to cause confusion, unpleasant surprises, or broken links. (Remember too that we used wikipedia.com for years before switching everything to wikipedia.org, and we should never gratuitously break existing links.)
Now, if there's interest in changing the "www." portal for Wikipedia, that's fine, but different behavior between the .org and .com domains would IMO be confusing and thus detrimental to usability for the public.
(Don't forget too that many browsers and browser-like devices default to ".com" domains if you don't specify. Don't assume someone made a deliberate choice to pick the .com domain -- they should get a reasonable default, not be punished by getting something unexpectedly different.)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)