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Please note that meetings on this page were not necessarily official "Board meetings", but simply meetings attending by several members of the Board. Notes are provided to increase transparency of the workings of the Foundation. Please use [[Talk:Wikimedia Board meetings]] if you would like to give feedback on any of these reports, or at [[Talk:Wikimedia meeting agendas]] if there is anything you would like raised at the next meeting. 

Draft agendas can be found at [[Wikimedia meeting agendas]]. A [[timezone conversion]] chart is available for meeting planning.

== 2006 ==

=== Open meeting, Saturday February 11, 21:00 UTC ===
A follow-up meeting was held on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at the same time ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=2&year=2006&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=0&sort=2 21:00 UTC]) on the [[IRC channel]] '''#wikimedia-meeting''' on irc.freenode.net which can be accessed on the web via [http://irc.wikicities.com/meeting/] or in the normal way using an [[w:List of IRC clients|IRC client]].

Suggested topics:

* scope of work for each committee <!-- what does this mean?  elaboration on personal ideas by any committee organizers that are present? -->
* committee procedures 
** need for subcommittees and procedures to create them
** membership procedures, multilingual membership
** decision-making processes
** roles within committees: chair, member, advisor
* confidentiality, responsibility, liability.
** ways to deal with confidential information : 
**: should (all) committee members have access to the internal wiki?
**: should the Board need to approve every account on internal? <!-- please, no... -->
** interaction and communication between the committees and to the Board
** legal liability of committee and their members
* multilingualism : see 'multilingual membership'
* specific group/committee questions
** role of the research network and how this fits in with committees

Two channels were used 
Logs:
* #Wikimedia-meeting [http://scireview.de/wiki/com2/channel.log] 
* #wikimedia-execcom [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_committee/February_11%2C_2006_open_meeting_log]

The next meeting will be in 3 weeks (roughly March 4th or 5th). To be announced here.
:may i plead for the meeting to be on a sunday please? [[User:Oscar|<font color="red">o</font><font color="orange">s</font> <font color="yellow">c</font><font color="green">a</font><font color="blue">r</font>]] 23:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

=== Open meeting, Sunday February 5, 21:00 UTC ===
# Open Wikimedia meeting of Sunday February 5, 2006. About the new committee structure. ([http://scireview.de/wiki/com/channel.log Full transcript], [[Open meeting, February 5, 2006/Minutes|Unfinished summary notes by various people]])


Please see [http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-January/005878.html foundation-l] for an explanation of the first meeting on February 5th this month and [[Open meeting%2C February 5%2C 2006]] <small>([[Open meeting, February 5, 2006/Minutes|minutes]])</small> for a public log of the meeting.



==2005==

#''[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/October_1%2C_2005 Budget Meeting] with the [[Chief Financial Officer]], Chapter Coordinator and Board. October 1.
#''Board meeting with [[official positions|officers]] and chapters. September 18'': (no summary?)
#''Fundraising meeting:  What lessons did we learn? September 17'': [[Fundraising meeting%2C September 2005]]
# [[Open Board meeting, August 2005]] ?
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/August 27, 2005|Open meeting]], August 27, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/August 18, 2005|Chapters]], August 18, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/August 14, 2005|Q3 finances]], August 14, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/June 9, 2005|Second meeting in June]], June 9, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/June 7, 2005|Bylaws meeting]], June 7, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/May 24, 2005|Second meeting in May]], May 24, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/May 16, 2005|Meeting about official positions]], May 16, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/March 30, 2005|Short meeting]], March 30, 2005
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/February 7, 2005|Finance]], February 7, 2005
# [[Open Board meeting, February 2005]] (full transcript)

==2004==

# [[Open Board meeting, November 2004]] (full transcript)
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/October 22, 2004|Membership]], October 22, 2004
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/October 16, 2004|General Board meeting]], October 16, 2004
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/October 9, 2004|General Board meeting]], October 9, 2004
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/September 17, 2004|Fundraising and grants]], September 17, 2004 ([[Fundraising meeting, September 2004/Log|full transcript]])
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/September 5, 2004|Wikispecies]], September 5, 2004
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/July 24, 2004|Foundation website]], July 24, 2004 ([[Foundation website meeting, July 2004|summary and other links]])
# [[Wikimedia:Meetings/July 4, 2004|Initial meeting in Paris]], July 4, 2004

==Links==

*http://www.activefilings.com/resources/content/how_resolutions_work.htm
*http://www.activefilings.com/resources/content/corporate_actions.htm

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