Thanks Roger for more than a year of service. It&#39;s disappointing to see him finally go - his encouraging words in Bristol and Haifa last year (along the lines of &quot;you need balls to be cool and do outreach&quot;) was what kept me going in my Wikimedia outreach despite all kinds of disappointment.<br>
<br>[cynicism]<br>I&#39;m tempted now to prefer keeping approval voting over switching to STV. It seems that we&#39;re getting so big that we need a mechanism to determine who&#39;ll qualify as &quot;substitute trustees&quot; to be co-opted into the board.<br>
[/cynicism]<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 September 2012 17:57, Chris Keating <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:chris.keating@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">chris.keating@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>We have posted two items on the Wikimedia UK blog today, one announcing the appointment of Saad Choudri as a co-opted Trustee, the other announcing the resignation of Roger Bamkin.</div>
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</div><div>The text of the statements is as follows, and they can also be seen online at: <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>==</div><div><p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">Wikimedia UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Saad Choudri to its Board of Trustees. This appointment is effective from 19 September 2012.</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">Saad brings a wealth of skills and experience to the Board. He is a practising solicitor in the video games industry and has offered legal advice <i>pro bono</i> in the past. He is a member of the Law Society, and stood as a candidate in this year’s Trustee election, where <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_Conference_2012_AGM_Minutes#Election_of_Board_members" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">over half of the membership voted for him</a>. You can <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2012/Elections/Statements#Saad_Choudri" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">see his candidate statement</a> and <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2012/Elections/Questions#Saad_Choudri" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial initial" target="_blank">his answers to candidate questions</a> from that election.</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">We welcome Saad to the Board and very much look forward to working with him.</p></div>
<div><br></div><div>==</div><div><p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">Wikimedia UK would like to announce that Roger Bamkin has stepped down as a Trustee.</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">“Roger’s energy and enthusiasm has been central to the establishment of Wikimedia UK as a registered charity, our outreach programme, and to many other aspects of our work. QRpedia, one of his creations, is now in use in dozens of museums and galleries worldwide,” said Chris Keating, Chair of Wikimedia UK.</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">“Roger has always conducted himself with openness and honesty with regards to his business interests, which the Board greatly appreciates. However we have reached the decision together that it is best if Roger steps back from the Board, and thus the Board has accepted his resignation. I look forward to working with Roger in future.”</p>

<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em">The constitution of Wikimedia UK allows the Board to co-opt a Trustee to fill Roger’s place until the next AGM when elections will be held, and we will update the community about our intentions about filling this vacancy in due course.</p>
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</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Chris Keating<div>Trustee, Wikimedia UK</div><div>@chriskeating</div><div><a href="mailto:chris.keating@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">chris.keating@wikimedia.org.uk</a></div>

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