[Foundation-l] Wikimedia budget for Q1, 2005

[Angela]

A finance meeting was held on IRC today with four members of the
Board, and Daniel Mayer.

Please see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/d/d8/WikimediaBankHistory2004.pdf
for the budget details.

An open general meeting will be held in #meeting.wikimedia on February
15. All are welcome to attend this to discuss the topics listed at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda

Below is a summary of today's meeting. The full details of this will
be posted at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/February_7%2C_2005
as soon as Anthere and Jimbo approve them.

*A budget for $130000 was approved
*A fundraising drive to raise $75000 will take place for 3 weeks
starting 18 February
*Jimmy is discussing hiring options with Brion Vibber
*The Google hosting proposal is being discussed this week
*GuruNet will donate €30,000 towards the Wikimania conference

The following budget was approved for this quarter:
Servers/Hardware (base) 	$35,000.00
Extra hardware/dev projects 	$20,000.00
Grant hardware 	$40,000.00
Grant special projects 	$0.00
Hosting 	$16,000.00
Travel 	$5,000.00
Domain names 	$500.00
Office expenses 	$2,500.00
Miscellaneous 	$1,000.00
Developer pay 	$8,000.00
Fundraising/Promotional 	$500.00
Hardware assistant 	$1,500.00
TOTAL 	$130,000.00
Needed in fund drive 	$75,000.00

Angela Beesley