At the board meeting of 7th October, we put together a form of words for the Objectives http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Objectives, but have not agreed a final version.
The new text states: ---- The charity's objects are the promotion of education and advancement of heritage for all by empowering and engaging people to collect, develop and effectively disseminate educational content and heritage resources under a free license or in the public domain by means which may include all or any of the following:
1. promoting freely accessible online information repositories whose content is freely and collaboratively editable; 2. acting as a voice and representative for the community of UK residents and citizens who use and edit such repositories; 3. preserving world heritage, and particularly that of the UK, through such repositories; 4. supporting the charitable work of the Wikimedia Foundation; 5. enabling, assisting, promoting and promulgating wider participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere; 6. furthering the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation; 7. producing, publishing and developing, or cause to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms; 8. making use of or encouraging the use of information resources for the advancement of education; 9. encouraging the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide; and 10. undertaking any enterprise or business and generally do all such other things as may be conducive to promoting the objects of the charity. ----
The main questions raised at the board meeting were:
a) whether the text should specifically mention the Wikimedia Foundation; b) whether the text should specifically mention wikis; c) whether point #10 is clear, necessary and in line with charitable status; d) whether the organisation should be a "voice and representative for the community of UK residents and citizens", or for everyone with a connection to the UK; e) whether this list format is the best manner in which to describe our objectives.
This is the starting point; the board now need the views of the community. So please comment and make proposals, on this list, and on meta, within the next few days.