On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:05 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/18 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
hopefully there will even be something left over for travel expenses
Nope. One of the reasons I've been bringing up the geographical issue a lot is that realistically were are unlikely to be able to cover travel expenses in the first few years.
If you are not in the same city as the other board memebers you could end up racking up say £200 in travel costs.
A good strategy for meetings, at least early in the chapter's development, is going to include telecommunications like IRC or teleconferencing. Getting your own wiki, your own moderated IRC chatroom and your own mailinglist (covered!) are key in this regard. Also, you should be relatively liberal at first in defining a quorum for in-person meetings, since monetary considerations may prevent large majorities from attending.
When we were planning for Wikimedia PA, we specifically said a quorum at a general meeting could be met through simultaneous telecommunications, or members who are acting via proxy or who have specifically waived their ability to attend in writing. This way business can still proceed as normal and you don't have to worry so much about expensive travel arrangements.
--Andrew Whitworth