On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > The Board of Trustees had a meeting this weekend in conjunction with > the Wikimedia chapters conference held in Berlin. As an outcome of the > meeting we discussed and passed nine resolutions, which are published > here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions > > * "Recognizing models of affiliation", and "Affiliations committee" > are related to the movement roles project > (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles) and are in response to > that group's final recommendations. These resolutions recognize three > new models for affiliated Wikimedia groups, and expand the mandate of > Chapcom to cover these new models. > > * "Organizational best practices" and "committee standards" are > general best-practices documents that also are related to > recommendations from the movement roles group; these are documents > that we asked the Board audit committee and the Board governance > committee respectively to develop. > > * "Board governance committee charter" and "Amendment to Chapter > Committee Rules of Procedure" both relate to creating or amending > committee governing documents. The BGC is an internal board committee > that deals with board appointments and evaluation; the chapter > committee amendments update and clarify the procedure for appointing > new chapters committee members. > > * "Funds Dissemination Committee" asks the WMF executive director to > set up a community-led funds dissemination committee structure for > making decisions on movement-wide project funds allocations. > "Fundraising 2012" is about chapter "payment-processing", i.e. chapter > handling of donations to the Wikimedia project sites, and asks that > only the four chapters who are currently payment-processing be allowed > to do so until 2016. These recommendations are the conclusion to our > lengthy discussion this year and last about fundraising, and are in > response to the ED's recommendations on the subject. > > * And, lastly, "Board of Trustees Voting Transparency" asks that the > name of trustees be published with their votes in formal resolution > votes. > > Please don't hesitate to ask me or us if you have questions about these. > > best, > Phoebe > (2011-12 WMF Board secretary) >
And one last resolution; there was a short delay in publishing while we talked to those affected. This resolution takes care of any outstanding open-ended provisional chapter approvals; there are currently only two such groups. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Revision_of_open-ended_Chapter_approvals best, -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
