Dear all, on April 7th, Wikimedia Italia held its general assembly, where a new board has been elected. It is composed as follows: * Lorenzo Losa, President * Valerio Perticone, Vice-president * Carlo Benini, Secretary * Saverio G. Malatesta, Treasurer * Maurizio Napolitano
I wish to thank Federico Leva, Giuseppe Profiti and Paola Liliana Buttiglione, who ended their term, for their invaluable work in the board.
The general assembly drew a very good participation, with 89 voting members (the most participated general assembly in the last ten years!), and unanimously approved the 2017 annual report (currently in Italian only; an English version is planned). https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Relazione_sulle_attivit%C3%A0_2017
A few highlights from the 2017 report: * Two new WIRs have started working at the Ministry of Culture (ICAR and ICBSA). Some portals of the central archives administration have already adopted the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license as well as the public domain charter! For more links see: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence * We got more than 3.000 researchers to archive their articles in green open access (in just two months!): < https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-3000...
* OpenStreetMap activities are strengthening, reaching more than double the people we expected.
From the structural point of view, since July 2017, after almost a year of
intense discussions with members and staff, we have started implementing changes while going towards a reduced workload for the board. We have mutually agreed to part ways with our former ED. Since then, three new employees have started working with us: Giovanna Ranci, for the education program; Marta Arosio, for GLAM partnerships; Teresa Scorza, for administration and bookkeeping.
Looking forward, the 2018 budget and annual plan, written by 37 members and employees together, is increasing the support for Wikimedia volunteers (financially and otherwise), while reducing expenses for salaries and administrative services. https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Piano_annuale_2018
Best regards, Lorenzo