Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying?
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:22:56 -0800 From: phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] WMF Board of Trustees meeting agenda Message-ID: <CAAi3vqFM1b2JdkPixsR7B2b8JauWH6CVr7qF5YO5FOQYVeMm4Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hi all,
The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012
This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF annual planning process for 2012/2013, fundraising and funds dissemination models, and the movement roles process.
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying?
I am assuming Legal will bring it up in the context of the annual plan!
But in our last in person board meeting--very shortly after the Italian blackout, though I swear I put it on the agenda before that!--we discussed whether this was something we should get involved with/devote resources to at all, and what it would mean for us:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07 (search for "advocacy")
Now we're just into specific implementations. :-)
-Kat
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying?
I am assuming Legal will bring it up in the context of the annual plan!
But in our last in person board meeting--very shortly after the Italian blackout, though I swear I put it on the agenda before that!--we discussed whether this was something we should get involved with/devote resources to at all, and what it would mean for us:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07 (search for "advocacy")
Now we're just into specific implementations. :-)
-Kat
What Kat said -- also, in general, topics that don't make it to the in-person agenda are usually discussed over email and/or IRC; the in-person time is so limited that we try to limit to topics that would really benefit from face-to-face discussions. This meeting in particular we are trying a slightly different strategy in that we tried to limit the number of topics discussed, so we can go further in-depth for each one. Also, I think broad advocacy discussions will certainly continue for a long time into the future (versus the annual planning and fundraising discussions, which are time-sensitive).
phoebe
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