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 typically serves for one year, roughly from July through the late
Spring when the Foundation files its annual tax return in the U.S. This past year the
committee included members from the broad community, from chapters, and from the
Foundation's Board (including me as Committee Chair).
We’ve recently started forming the 2010-2011 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 for membership is “financial literacy”, some kind of professional experience
with finance, accounting or audit. As it is a governance and oversight role, Committee
members cannot serve under a pseudonym, undergo the same basic background check as others
in WMF financial oversight roles, and must make the same conflict of interest disclosures
required of the Foundation's Board.
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.
-s
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Stu West
stu <at>
wikimedia.org
[User:Stu]