Hi, I'm surprised that reaction to Sue's question about a "seat" on the WMUK board is still going on. To clarify, *the WMF have made no such request*. As far as I can work out this is only Sue's fishing expedition and I suggest we don't over-react to it. Be assured that the trustees have had robust discussions about the nature of Sue's letter and appreciate the context of quite different positive messages from the WMF board members.
The WMF board or any of their representatives are welcome to sit on *every* WMUK board meeting, ask as many questions as they want and add agenda items for our discussion. As far as I am concerned if 70 members of WMF staff want to watch the trustees live on camera and critique every word remotely, they are more than welcome to do that too. I would encourage it, as I would love this to embarrass the WMF board into being more open about their own affairs and internal discussions. There are no plans to make a proposal to change our constitution to allow the WMF to have a voting seat on the board, so I think it is safe to say this would be unrealistically late to consider introducing it at our forthcoming AGM, even if the WMF did make such a bizarre request. I agree with the earlier point about being fed up with talking about constitutional changes. There is plenty that we can cater for by simple policy and procedure. Necessary changes, such as two year terms for trustees, are already being discussed at <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_Conference_2012/AGM_Resolutions> and if you are interested in this sort of thing, please do read through and make suggestions for improvement. Now; if you would like to help with a timely issue of governance, you might want to join in the <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council> discussion or start a new thread on this list. Roger Bamkin, Jon Davis and I will be joining the Chapters Conference at the end of this month, so feedback from our members would help our discussions to ensure that the new Chapters Council firmly addresses the real issues that the WMF are so worried about when it comes to financial controls and accountability for chapter fundraising and grant management. Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:fae Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
