Wikimedia committees
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See this board resolution for an updated list of Committees.
This page describes committees created by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
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[edit] Active committees
[edit] Audit committee
Two committees created January 14th 2006 (board resolution) and January 12–14th 2007 (board resolution).
The 2006 audit committee interviewed accounting firms, and an unnamed firm was selected by board resolution on April 19th 2006.
[edit] Chapters committee
Created February 15th 2006 by board resolution.
Was organized by Delphine Ménard and Łukasz Garczewski, initially composed of Austin Hair, Hari Prasad Nadig, Nathan Carter, Łukasz Garczewski, and Delphine Ménard, with Andrew Lih and Arne Klempert as advisers.
See also:
[edit] Communications committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
[edit] Nominating Committee
Created April 2008 by Board resolution. Active.
[edit] Static content group
A little sprout from the defunct Special projects. Active to a certain extent.
[edit] Language committee
A little sprout from the defunct Special projects. Active.
[edit] Inactive or closed committees
[edit] Board expansion committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
The Board was successfully expanded from 5 to 7 members in November 2006, and the committee consequently disbanded.
[edit] Executive committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution, intended to hold executive authority delegated from the Board when the Board was not in session (see a common definition).
It was meant to be organized by Angela, but was never really in operation. To be considered disbanded. A sub-meeting (discussion log) of the 11 February 2006 open meeting was used to discuss the setup of the Executive Committee and the possibility of an Administrative Director (or a similarly worded executive position).
[edit] Events committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
First meeting took place on April 5th 2006. The initial members were Delphine Ménard, Arne Klempert, Simon Pulsifer, Frank Schulenburg. The last update indicated the committee was working on a paper about the scope of the committee. Considered disbanded.
[edit] Financial committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
Was to be organized by Daniel Mayer and Michael Davis. Status: disagreement between the organisers, original proposals were rejected. Now deprecated after accountant and financial director were hired (see foundation:Current staff).
[edit] Fundraising committee
Created June 7th 2006.
Was active throughout its first year of operation, but was disbanded in its original description in August 2007 to be replaced with a workforce.
[edit] Insurance committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
The original members were Michael Davis, Angela Beesley, Jimmy Wales, and Danny Wool. Status: work in progress to complete applications for Board and Officers Liability insurance and cyber-insurance. Committee de facto disbanded in January after meeting about the forms. D&O active.
[edit] Special projects committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
Was originally organized by Florence Devouard, Jakob Voss, and Danny Wool. No longer active as of August 2007.
[edit] Technical committee
Created January 15th 2006 by board resolution.
Was to be organized by Jens Frank, Brion Vibber and Domas Mituzas. Status: was never organized, although the core team of developers constitute a sort of de facto committee.
[edit] Trademarks committee
Created January 2nd 2006 by board resolution, intended to oversee the legal process to secure trademarks, make timely reports on the trademark status to the board, make recommendations to the Board about the top priority concerning trademarks (categories, locations and their estimated costs), and was responsible for registering and monitoring domain names for the Foundation.
Status: was partly active for a while, but disbanded as of August 2007.
[edit] See also
- Wikimedia:Resolutions - for details and transcripts of meetings about the setting up of these committees
