I’d just like to give my thanks to the election committee for organising this for us, and I hope the rigour the process achieved will have gone some way to countering the doubts some people had about how representative WMUK could ever be. Those of us elected have been handed a clear mandate to turn WMUK into an open, transparent and democratic charity as soon as conceivably possible, something I for one am determined to see happen. I urge the future members of WMUK to hold a (metaphorical) whip over me and the rest of the board to keep things moving and to make sure we don’t stray from what we’ve been elected to do. We are very much only a temporary board, and I hope that all of those who stood this time will stand again in the “official” elections which will hopefully come in the next few months. I also hope that those who have been instrumental in getting us this far (not least Tango) will continue to help as actively as they have up to now. I should also add a brief apology: I’ve been in crunch with a paper since getting back from holidays so I haven’t been around as much as I might have been, so sorry! I’ve been continuing slowly at least with Wikimania stuff and have a few new open leads, however in the next few weeks I’ll be both ramping up my efforts on it and making a more concerted effort to assign jobs to particular people. May I suggest that we have our first open board meeting at 8PM tonight (Tuesday) on IRC to discuss who’s doing which of the initial tasks. Tom From: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of joseph seddon Sent: 30 September 2008 00:50 To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Results of Wikimedia UK board election On behalf of British community and the election committee, I would like to thank all those who participated in this election. The committee apologises for the delay in getting these results out. Internet access and real life resulted in time not being readily available this weekend and hence the lateness. In total, 27 members of the British community voted in the election, therefore, to reach the 50% requirement, 14 votes in favour of a candidate were required. 5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows: KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel. I would like to wish the best of luck to all those who will be responsible, whether board members or not, for making Wikimedia UK a fully functional and successful chapter . In time, feedback will be passed onto the board before the next elections to hopefully improve this process. User:Seddon @ en:wiki Election committee _____ Win £3000 to spend on whatever you want at Uni! Click <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354032/direct/01/> here to WIN!

Likewise, I would like to thank everyone who has given taken part so far in helping to get a new chapter going, whether that's the election committee for running the election, the candidates for standing, or the wider community who has voted and/or offer comments or thoughts. I would hope to The 8pm of 30th September? Unfortunately I will be otherwise engaged not least for the fact that it's my birthday. :) KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:06, Florence Devouard &lt;Anthere9(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: She beat me to it. :-) I think it would make a lot of sense, especially to dissociate their role on-wiki from their role off-wiki. Cheers, Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Your emails will get lost. Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org

The elected members by real name are: Kwan Ting Chan Andrew Turvey Tom Holden Michael Conn Mike Peel * *An all male board, sadly, but maybe the new temporary board can also work on this in the future. Ian [[User:Poeloq]] Andrew Turvey <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, geni &lt;geniice(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

I would also like to ditto what KTC and Tom have said, with especial thanks to the election committee and to all that voted. I hope that we can get WMUK2 set up as speedily as we can. Having the initial meeting in IRC on Thursday 2nd October at 8pm works well for me. Thanks, Mike On 30 Sep 2008, at 04:09, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:

Congratulations to the 'new batch' (and condolences to your email which will not forgive you for the spam it will eventually receive!) I've written to each of you separately, but here I'd just like to note that I am pleased that April 13 is still getting an influence over things ;-P Regards Alison

Ian A. Holton wrote: Congratulations to those elected. I am pleased to add my personal support to this new venture although it is unlikely that this will turn in to much more than peanut gallery stuff (I'm a crack shot with those things sometimes). However, In my day job I manage OSS Watch, the UK Innovation Support Centre for open source in Higher and Further Education. We are based at the Univerity of Oxford and funded by the Joint Information System Committee (JISC). As the objectives of the foundation are firmed up I will be looking on to see how we can best build a symbiotic relationshp. The first point of call will be with respect to the conference proposal. At the very least we can get any University owned venues at a discounted rate - but I'm sure we can do more than that for you. Ross

All, The first meeting of the WMUKv2 board will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8PM (British time) on IRC, probably on the #wikimedia-uk-board channel (if otherwise, then details will be emailed to this list). Everyone is invited to listen, but speaking will probably be restricted to board members only or people that the board invites to speak, so that the meeting can go quickly and smoothly. Discussion about the meeting will probably take place simultaneously in #wikimedia-uk , which at least one board member will be watching. A log of the meeting will be made available afterwards. Mike Peel

7PM UTC. Mike On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:25, Andrew Whitworth wrote: