[Foundation-l] Board of Trustees activity report - May-June 2011

Thu Aug 4 08:19:24 UTC 2011

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> phoebe ayers wrote:
> > The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
> > first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
> > summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement,
> and
> > help make Board work and trustee activities more accessible &
> transparent.
> > This first report took some time to put together, but we hope to post
> future
> > reports on a regular schedule. Please let me know if you have any
> feedback
> > or suggestions.
>
> Looks pretty good. Thanks for putting this together. :-)
>
> I think posting the reports (or links to the reports) on Meta-Wiki or
> wikimediafoundation.org would be good. There is already some
> infrastructure
> in place, e.g., <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Reports>.
>
> There's also the blog to consider: <http://blog.wikimedia.org/>. It's a
> matter of weighing how much "the outside" would care about Board internals,
> though, I suppose.
>
> A wiki page or blog post might also make adding links easier. For example,
> "In May, Kat visited the WMF offices, to meet with Foundation lawyer
> Geoff Brigham and to help develop a summary of WMF legal practices. This
> has
> been posted for comment." could include a link to the page on Meta-Wiki.
>
> These are minor issues that can be tweaked going forward. Definitely a step
> in the right direction, toward accessibility and transparency.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
Thanks! All good suggestions. I'll get after it when I'm not at Wikimania
with a dying computer :)

cheers,
Phoebe