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(a)wikimedia.org