Hello all!
I am Ali Haidar Khan (nickname: Tonmoy), founder member & Treasurer of
Wikimedia Bangladesh. We are a newly approved chapter and I am very exited
to have a mailing list like this for discussing & sharing finance matters
with others. I am a contributor on Bengali Wikipedia & Meta since 2008 &
also participating in/organizing offline campaigns for Wikipedia &
Wikimedia projects in Bangladesh since then.
I am a finance graduate & completed Bachelor in Business Administration
from University of Dhaka. Now I am working in a financial institution as
credit analyst for last 3 years. I have worked in the areas of financial
management, financial reporting, analysis of books of accounts and similar
finance jobs over the years. Since our chapter is new, I hope I will be
able to structure an efficient financial framework for it. Currently we are
working towards registering our Chapter with the local authority.
Looking forward to having your cheers & support for our newly approved
chapter.
Thanks
Tonmoy
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:18 PM, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings!
I am James Hare, Treasurer of Wikimedia District of Columbia, which
represents Washington, DC and four other U.S. states. As treasurer it
is my job to keep the books, prepare the budget, answer to our
unfortunately undersized Audit Committee, and serve as the ex-officio
chairman of the Fundraising Committee. Regrettably, the number of
finance-types in our organization is really small. In fact, I'm not
even an accountant by trade, nor am I (at this time) studying to
become one. But given that I'm responsible for keeping track of mostly
cash transactions and not the balance sheet of Goldman Sachs, it
hasn't been an excessive burden. Matt Bisanz, who has formal training
in accounting, serve as our Audit Committee chair (and its only
member).
Our current challenge is fundraising, as we are a brand new chapter
that needs to bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Wikimania
2012. Last night I finished our fundraising plan for this fiscal year,
which focuses largely on the ancillary marketing and networking
strategies Wikimedia DC will need to adopt. My ambition going forward
is to set up a number of relationships with local organizations so
that we can rely less and less on the Wikimedia Foundation for our
funding. Our need is particularly pressing since we cannot rely on the
website fundraiser for our revenue.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Stuart West <stu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Now that we've had some time for people to
sign up for the list (28 so
far),
let's kick things off. I'd like to start
with something that's worked
well
on both the gendergap and developing countries
lists: quick personal
introductions and then description of why we're interested in this topic
and
what we hope to get out of the list.
I'll go first.
My name is Stu West and I'm a volunteer on the Wikimedia Foundation's
board
of trustees. I am the Board's Treasurer and
chair of its Audit
Committee.
I've been involved with Wikipedia for about
5-6 years, and on the Board
since early 2008. My day job is in Silicon Valley, where I've worked for
private and publicly-traded technology companies in roles including CFO.
I'm really interested in governance/transparency/accountability issues
for a
few reasons. In my role as WMF Treasurer,
it's my responsibility to
focus
on these. More broadly though, my personal point
of view on Wikimedia is
very long term. I'm really amazed at what our community has
accomplished,
and want to ensure we continue to have a huge and
growing impact for the
next 100 years. To do that, I think we'll need to give our community
the best possible organizational/legal/governance support.
As for this list, I'd like it to be a place for high-quality sharing of
ideas and best practices around governance/transparency in our movement.
I
hope we can attract a significant portion of the
treasurers,
finance staff,
and even Audit Committee members. I hope it can
be a great way for all
of
us to learn from each other and hope we can have
lots of emails asking
for
advice/support/ideas from one another. Finally
and most importantly,
I hope
we can use this list to plan Wikimania beers and
other in person
get-togethers.
Who's next?
-s
Begin forwarded message:
From: Stuart West <stu(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: New "treasurers" mailing list
Date: November 10, 2011 12:15:12 PM PST
To: "internal-l" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I set up a new public mailing list called treasurers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
for
discussing and sharing best practices in
financial reporting and
financial
transparency across the Wikimedia movement. The
primary intended
membership
is treasurers, audit committees, and finance
staff of movement
organizations, but the list is public and anyone interested in financial
reporting and transparency is welcome. This list is archived publicly.
You can subscribe here:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/treasurers
Please take a moment to forward this on to your favorite Treasurer or
finance staffer. Thanks.
(I thought about just using internal but decided against because a)
there's
lots of traffic on it already and b) i'm not
sure all our various
treasurers
both subscribe to and read internal regularly.)
-s
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Stuart West
Board Treasurer
Wikimedia Foundation
stu(a)wikimedia.org
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Treasurers mailing list
Treasurers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/treasurers
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James Hare
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Treasurers mailing list
Treasurers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/treasurers