On 27/03/2012 14:07, Thomas Morton wrote: Yeah. Would we want Microsoft IIS with SharePoint on a blade? Gordo -- Gordon Joly gordon.joly(a)pobox.com http://www.joly.org.uk/ Don't Leave Space To The Professionals!

Hi, Based on the suggestions here, I have split the last question "There should be an advance discussion with members for every in-kind donation" into large and small (under £1,000). Apologies if folks need to re-visit the table. I actually had in mind in-kind donations of less than £1,000 or so in value (like a couple of nice laptops). If an in-kind donation of kit or software licenses were awfully large (more than£20,000) I would personally look for serious engagement with members, not just trustees or staff off in some dark back-room making a deal. For example we might be offered free licenses for an on-line CRM system, there would be significant implications and getting it free is not the most significant issue for us choosing such a tool. Link to poll: <http://www.doodle.com/i2snavpc55dc95iv> Cheers, Fae

Thank you to everyone who took part in our quick poll or made comments about it on this list. The feedback did help the board to come to a decision to accept a donation of equipment to support the MonmouthpediA outreach project. We will aim to ensure a range of equipment brands (and software) support our events, just to make it clear that we are not in any exclusive deal with anyone, and to demonstrate to the public / press that Wikimedia projects are accessible in a variety of ways on almost every platform. All significant in-kind donations will be recognized on the UK wiki and declared in our accounts as part of our commitment to transparency and as advised by Charity Commission guidelines. This seems like an area worth a bit more detail on :wmuk. Almost everyone seems happy with the idea of taking in-kind donations, and giving appropriate recognition to the donors, so long as they don't come with strings attached or might appear to exclusively align our charity with any brand or (off-mission) cause. I'm not offering to do this myself, but we might follow up on <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water_cooler> ... if someone would like to suggest improving our current policies. PS the poll is at <http://www.doodle.com/i2snavpc55dc95iv> if someone can work out how to capture it nicely (my pdf export looks rubbish) it might be worth uploading to :wmuk as a record. Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags