[Foundation-l] Report board meeting in Florida 6-7 of october

[Brianna Laugher]

Thanks for the detailed interesting info, Florence!

On 11/10/2007, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org> wrote:
> We also took some time to officially create an ED committee (this is the
> second board committee). The membership is Jan-Bart, Kat ? and Anthere.
>   The roles of this committee are all related to the Executive Director.
> It may be 1) to find and hire an ED, 2) to provide an annual assesment
> of the ED work, 3) to negotiate working conditions, 4) to fire him etc...

Will Sue be staying on as Special Advisor when an ED is found? I had
an idea that her role was going to be kind of converted to ED at some
stage.

(snip)
> However, this quest could not be handled uniquely by Mona and I. So, to
> organize this quest, we created a Treasurer Search workgroup. Current
> membership is Kat, Erik and I. Erik is the chair of that group.
> More to come on the treasurer search soon.

Hm, I hope this doesn't take as long as the ED search. :) I guess it
is not nearly as important that a treasurer "share our principles" as
compared to an ED.

> Budget discussion occured with consultant Mona Venkateswaran, resulting
> in approval of the FY 2007-2008 overall budget value.
> This is the first properly planned budget in the history of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. It is understood to be tentative and contain a
> significant margin of error. Budget will be refined as data capture
> improves.
> We also asked that more granular capture of accounting categories was
> needed, e.g. Wikimania.

Will the budget be a resolution? If not, when will we be able to see it?

cheers,
Brianna

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