[Foundation-l] Agenda for October board meeting

[Michael Snow]

The next meeting of the Board of Trustees is October 3-5 in San 
Francisco. Some of the matters on our agenda include:
*the upcoming online fundraiser (tentatively to begin end of October or 
beginning of November)
*progress on the audit for fiscal year 2007-08
*the path toward "sub-national" chapter organizations
*along with that, some additional housekeeping related to chapter business
*Wikimedia's role with respect to open standards, especially for 
educational content
*the role of the advisory board
*organizational policies

A few issues are things we basically should be wrapping up, like the 
revised privacy policy, and should come out of the meeting as finished 
work. Some things we're checking in on but results will probably not 
follow quite immediately. For example, the audit committee meets earlier 
in the week so the board will have a little more information when it 
meets, but I don't think we'll be done to the point of approving audited 
financial statements. We'll handle that by email and wiki in the weeks 
following.

And finally, some of these topics are big-picture issues we need to 
discuss, but aren't always ripe for outcomes just yet. It may be 
starting or reopening a conversation. We touched on the advisory board 
back in April, but ended up with more work to do on restructuring the 
board itself, so we're picking back up on that subject. And as I 
indicated earlier, there are many issues we can explore around file 
formats and open standards. I particularly want to stimulate some 
community discussion in that area to help the board, so I'll address it 
separately in a little bit. In the meantime, please let me know if you 
have any input you would like the board to consider within the framework 
of its agenda for this meeting.

--Michael Snow