[treasurers] Welcome, and introductions

[Samat]

Hi All,

My real name is Tamás Mészöly, my nickname is Samat.

I contribute to Hungarian Wikipedia for almost 5 years as administrator and
bureaucrat, where I was active in community activities, organizing
programs, operating a bot, but I got interested more and more in PR and
educating of Wikipedia and in relations between Wikipedia and other
organizations, archives, governmental institutes etc. I am a founding
member of Wikimedia Hungary and I was the executive vice president of the
chapter in the first two year term.

Now I am the first (part-time) employee of our chapter as office manager
(in practice from January 2012), and one of my task is helping out the
Board (included our Treasurer).

I am an engineer, so I am not graduated or well-known in
financial/accounting area, but I'd like to be well informed and I'd like to
be familiar with thinking of WMF or best practices of other chapters. I
hope this list help us getting closer.

My English is far from perfect, so I am usually shy and read-only on
international lists, but if you have any question, I am here :)

Tamás Mészöly
User:Samat



On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 02:20, Stuart West <stu at 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 at wikimedia.org>
> *Subject: **New "treasurers" mailing list*
> *Date: *November 10, 2011 12:15:12 PM PST
> *To: *"internal-l" <internal-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> I set up a new public mailing list called treasurers at 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
>
> ===============
> Stuart West
> Board Treasurer
> Wikimedia Foundation
> stu at wikimedia.org
>
>
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