My name is Josep Nogue. I am founding member and treasurer of Amical Viquipèdia.[1] I am economist now retired. My professional experience was in team management and organizing programs related to internal training in one of the main savings banks in Spain. I also volunteer in other non profit activities like collaborating with the ombudsman of the municipality of Cornellà and coaching of new entrepreneurs.

I am interested in participating in this list because we are working in developing systems to provide transparency but avoiding bureaucracy and this is a difficult balance so I am very interested in learning from others. I am also interested in this process because Amical is an organization culturally focused instead of territory related so our activities overlap geographically with those of some local chapters. We think we must follow best practices to ensure their confidence and we are also interested they follow those practices so all together can contribute to will earn a high reputation for the Wikimedia movement in the social groups we address.

I would like to end my welcome letter expressing my congratulations to Mulwardi Tjitra from WMID. I think you are doing a great job in transparency in your financial reports. We are learning a lot from you. It is a pity that this system is up to your high skills with excel and in translating it to html.

Cheers


[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia