[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees: Minutes of January 2014 meeting

2014-04-21 Thread Stephen LaPorte
At the request of the WMF Board of Trustees, I am posting the minutes of the January 31 - February 1, 2014 meeting, which you may find here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-01-31 Best, Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees: Minutes of January 2014 meeting

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Peel
Hi all, Stephen, thanks for posting this. :-) From my perspective, there's two items of particular interest here that I haven't seen discussed on this list or elsewhere - namely Disrupting the disrupters and Community council. The board minutes aren't really sufficient to understand the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees: Minutes of January 2014 meeting

2014-04-21 Thread Lodewijk
Thanks for sharing indeed! I find the community council idea very interesting (some might recall that proposals have surfaced over time that could be covered by such a name). Given the topic, I'm going to assume here that this topic will be brought up for community discussion before anything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees: Minutes of January 2014 meeting

2014-04-21 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi Mike, Sure. Both were open discussions, and no decisions were taken or specific proposals developed. And neither topic is in any way limited to being a board discussion: both are broad-ranging topics concerning all of us. We took these up to, as a board, have some time to step back and think