phoebe ayers, 24/08/2011 18:39:
Thanks Nemo! It is true that the first part of the report is a duplication of the resolutions& meeting minutes that we publish. My assumption here was that not everyone keeps up with all of the board resolutions etc :) It is also nice to have a single record of everything we did in a given time period; I was mainly trying to be complete. Of course those who are already familiar with all of this should feel free to skip over this section. (But if there's a way to make it more useful, that would be great -- and if others think it should be dropped as well let me know!)
Good to know, now that you clarified this I know that I can avoid reading everything twice to spot the small differences :-p It can indeed be useful to put everything together and if it's not too much work for you, good for us. :-)
I'm not sure why you say this is not for the general public. I would not mind if the general public read it -- there's nothing confidential. The only reason to not disseminate it as-is on the blog is that it is kind of dry and not especially well written :)
Yes, that's just it, you can write it with less effort if it's not meant for the blog.
My hope here is that the reports would be: a) a way for our wider community (i.e. people who don't follow the wmfwiki) to know what the board is up to; b) a way for everyone, internally and externally, to see some of the other work the board does that is not well known -- for instance the board governance committee stuff; c) highlight some of the awesome work our trustees do on their own out in the world with communities and outreach. (And maybe some of these activities will turn into more interesting blog posts!)
I imagine that the people potentially interested in this might be Wikimedians, internal folks of all types, and even external people like our partners. Part of my motivation is to answer the question "what does the board do???" which seems to come up at every board election :)
At any rate I will be working on July-August this weekend and then I expect it will take a couple of weeks for the board members to get all of their submissions in and review the report. And then I hope to refine the schedule so we can get it out sooner. So please do keep the comments coming and let me know what needs to be changed.
Great! Thank you, Nemo