[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Board Meeting, May 24

Thu Jun 9 14:29:00 UTC 2005

I had hoped Jimmy's proposal about Wikicouncil would be public before
I published these notes, but since that hasn't happened and there has
now been another meeting since this one, I wanted to make sure these
notes were published before those of the meetings held this week.

A Board meeting was held on IRC on May 24
(<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/May_24%2C_2005>) with
Jimmy Wales, Florence Devouard, and Angela Beesley, primarily to
follow up on discussions about the upcoming elections and official
positions that were discussed on May 16
(<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/May_16%2C_2005>).

    * There is a proposal for a Wikicouncil which Jimmy is going to
post to the mailing list. Florence, Jimmy, Arne, Elisabeth, and
Delphine met on IRC last week to discuss the roles of the council and
whether chapters should be represented on it.
    * Angela proposed having an executive board of five members, with
an additional three members that would be elected. The three
non-executive board members would be involved in basically everything,
but the executive could overrule them where necessary. Jimmy found
this concept interesting, but was unsure of the legality of it. It was
put forward that since this would require a change of the bylaws upon
which legal advice would need to be sought, that the next board will
remain at 2 elected members.
    * Known objections to official positions were discussed.
    * Potential candidates for positions were discussed. Jimmy will
make appointments taking into account this discussion. Potential
positions put on hold for now included Quarto editor, Partnerships,
and Translation.
    * The next meeting will be Tuesday 7 June at 20:00 UTC.

If you would like to comment on this meeting or discuss any of the
points raised here, please do so at [[meta:talk:Wikimedia Board
meetings]] or on this list.

Angela

Angela Beesley
Wikimedia Foundation