As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation has an Audit Committee which represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting issues, including planning, reporting, audits, and internal controls (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee for details). The Committee serves for one year, from July through the late Spring when the Foundation files its annual tax return in the U.S. This past year the committee included representatives from the broad community, from chapters, and from the Foundation's Board (including me as Committee Chair).

We’ve recently started forming the 2012-2013 Audit Committee and as we did last year would like to call for volunteers from the community. The time commitment is modest, as far as Wikimedia goes: review the Foundation’s financial practices and financial statements/filings, and then participate in three or four conference calls during the year with the staff and our independent auditors at KPMG (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_charter for full duties). The primary requirement is “financial literacy,” some kind of professional experience with finance, accounting or audit. It's also worth noting that because it is a governance and oversight role, Committee members cannot serve under a pseudonym.

If you’re interested in serving on the Committee, please email me at stu <at> wikimedia.org with your resume/CV and your thoughts on how you think you could contribute. Thanks.

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=============== Stuart West Audit Committee Chair & Treasurer Wikimedia Foundation stu@wikimedia.org