A finance meeting was held on IRC today with four members of the Board, and Daniel Mayer. Please see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/d8/WikimediaBankHistory2… for the budget details. An open general meeting will be held in #meeting.wikimedia on February 15. All are welcome to attend this to discuss the topics listed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda Below is a summary of today's meeting. The full details of this will be posted at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/February_7%2C_2005 as soon as Anthere and Jimbo approve them. *A budget for $130000 was approved *A fundraising drive to raise $75000 will take place for 3 weeks starting 18 February *Jimmy is discussing hiring options with Brion Vibber *The Google hosting proposal is being discussed this week *GuruNet will donate €30,000 towards the Wikimania conference The following budget was approved for this quarter: Servers/Hardware (base) $35,000.00 Extra hardware/dev projects $20,000.00 Grant hardware $40,000.00 Grant special projects $0.00 Hosting $16,000.00 Travel $5,000.00 Domain names $500.00 Office expenses $2,500.00 Miscellaneous $1,000.00 Developer pay $8,000.00 Fundraising/Promotional $500.00 Hardware assistant $1,500.00 TOTAL $130,000.00 Needed in fund drive $75,000.00 Angela Beesley