[Foundation-l] Report from this month's Board meetings

Mon Jun 13 01:12:02 UTC 2005

Two board meetings were held this month. Some highlights from the
meetings follow. Please see
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_7%2C_2005 and
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_9%2C_2005 for the
full details.

The first meeting was, unusually, attended by the entire board. The
second was even more unusual in that it consisted of the entire board
with the exception of Jimbo.

We have approved two changes to the bylaws:
1) elected terms shall be two years rather than one, and
2) there will be no difference between contributing and volunteer
member representatives.

Other proposed changes were informally agreed upon, but will not be
officially approved prior to a legal review.

Work on the contacts for Mandriva's planned distribution of Wikipedia
is ongoing. The Portuguese Wikipedia might now be included, in
addition to English and French.

Jimmy is meeting Eben Moglen on 15 June to talk about proposed changes
to the GFDL.

In terms of hardware, Kate has helped to determine what we need from
Yahoo. This is expected to be set up next month. Details from the
system administration team on what we would like from other potential
sponsors would be appreciated.

We have approximately US$50,000 in the PayPal account. The fundraising
drive will postponed until after the elections. Feedback from the
sysadmins on what we are going to buy and when is required before the
fundraising drive.

Angela
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Angela Beesley
WikimediaFoundation.org