It's quite a lot, over 500.
On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 23:34, geni wrote:
> How many images are we talking about?
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 11:39, Katie Crampton <
> katie.cramp...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> We're in need of a volunteer to help us add captions and alt text to the
>>
Dear all
Our excellent Chair of Trustees, Nick Poole, will be stepping down at the
AGM in July after six years as a trustee (which is the maximum term) and
just over a year as Chair. We are therefore recruiting for a new Chair, and
are advertising the role externally as well as promoting the oppor
Could you confirm this is the first time that the Chair of Wikimedia UK has
been externally recruited rather than the role filled after being elected
by the charity members as a trustee?
Has the process for searching for "role" trustees and electing them
changed, and the charity's articles been am
This does not require any amendment.
Thanks,
Seddon
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 6:14 PM Fæ wrote:
> Could you confirm this is the first time that the Chair of Wikimedia UK
> has been externally recruited rather than the role filled after being
> elected by the charity members as a trustee?
>
> Has
Happy to accept your reading of the Articles*, which would mean that the
Chair of the Charity would be a "co-opted trustee" under the current
Article definitions.
Having an unelected Chair for the first time in the history of the charity
does not seem likely to be perceived by the majority of memb
Hi Fae
Thanks for your email. I think you are almost certainly right, and that
this is the first time that the Chair has been recruited externally -
although it's quite common practice in the voluntary sector more generally.
It is very possible that one of the existing trustees may become the Chai
Hi Lucy,
Thanks for sharing. I just wanted to take the time to thank Nick for his
many years of service. His commitment to open knowledge is especially clear
to anyone who follows him on Twitter, as I do. His passion and enthusiasm
are admirable, his knowledge fearsome. Thank you, Mr Poole. Good l
It is legally correct, whether anyone on the board is elected is not
mandated by the Charity Commission's guidelines, that's why it would be
foolish for anyone to make such a claim.
It is astonishing the types of charity recently approved in the UK, such as
a very notably transphobic lobbying grou
I'm a member and if the board feels that currently they lack either someone
with either the capacity, desire or expertise to become chair they it is
ethically right they try to find someone interested and qualified.
Co-opted directors are not lesser, inferior, or less capable than elected
board me
Thanks for your views.
Just to note that "Co-opted directors are not lesser, inferior, or less
capable than elected board members or hold any less of a mandate, nor
should they be perceived to be" is an opinion rather than fact. Elections
exist for the express purpose of providing a mandate. Nobod
>
> Just to note that "Co-opted directors are not lesser, inferior, or less
> capable than elected board members or hold any less of a mandate, nor
> should they be perceived to be" is an opinion rather than fact.
>
Not really. It's a fact that nothing in the Wikimedia UK constitution,
Charity Com
I really didn't want to get involved in this, but I'm impulsive. However,
my impulsiveness and my prudence have agreed that all I will do is
acknowledge that, yes, the Chair of any charity is a special role with
special responsibilities.I encourage members to think about that.
On Tue, May 25, 2021
On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 21:01, Chris Keating wrote:
>>
>> Just to note that "Co-opted directors are not lesser, inferior, or less
>> capable than elected board members or hold any less of a mandate, nor should
>> they be perceived to be" is an opinion rather than fact.
>
>
> Not really. It's a fa
> I really didn't want to get involved in this, but I'm impulsive. However,
> my impulsiveness and my prudence have agreed that all I will do is
> acknowledge that, yes, the Chair of any charity is a special role with
> special responsibilities.I encourage members to think about that.
>
Yes, that'
I agree. Experience cautions against expectations of perfection as our
hopes and dreams often become victims of cold reality. I think it is our
friend Katie who says that experience is a good school, but one for which
the fees are high. She is proven to be correct, time and time again.
On Tue, May
That's really helpful Chris.
So glad that we've all moved on and forgotten about events that
happened so long ago that my grandparents, uncle, niece, and three
relatives that did not have proper funerals last year were alive back
then.
I guess there's more important things for us volunteers to wo
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