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

[Florence Devouard]

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> 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.

Then you might have kind of an idea what this committee work will be :-)

> 
> (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.

?????????

Well, excuse me, but I'd say it is rather important that a treasurer, 
who is a board member, share our principles. He will have one vote after 
all.

> 
>> 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?

The approval is a resolution. Not the budget itself. You'll see a high 
level version. When, I dunno exactly. Better ask Sue.

Someone asked if the pictures were published (servers...). Not yet. It 
will be uploaded on commons later on, and I'll add some pictures as 
illustration of the board report on foundationwiki.

Ant

> cheers,
> Brianna
>