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to enable, assist, promote and promulgate wider participation in the creation, dissemination and expansion of information and educational resources covering the world's knowledge and languages to all persons, everywhere;
to further the development of electronic, printed, and other resources required to support such participation;
to produce, publish and develop, or cause to be produced, published and developed, information resources, whether in printed, electronic, or other forms;
to make use of or encourage the use of information resources for the advancement of education;
to encourage the adoption of practices and policies to widen education, participation and dissemination of information worldwide; and
to undertake and carry on any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with any of the above specified objects, or calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of or render profitable any of the Company's property or rights.

Board of directors

At the meeting in London on 15 January 2006, the first Directors were elected. This Board will seek to get Wikimedia UK set up as a registered charity and admit more members before holding the first Annual General Meeting. At the first Annual General Meeting all directors by law must stand down (though they may stand for re-election if they wish). If you wish to be involved in helping us get registered charity status, please let us know - there's plenty to be done and you don't need to be a director or member to help!

Chair - Alison Wheeler
Treasurer - Jon Garrett
Membership Officer - Andrew Walker
Press Officer - David Gerard
Director without portfolio¹ - James Forrester
Company Secretary² - Gordon Joly

Notes:
¹This means James gets lumbered with everything that doesn't fall within the remit of the other five roles:)
²Although the law does not require the Company Secretary to be a Director, the intention is that Gordon will be a full member of the Board of Directors.

Miscellany

Name

Legally we don't want to be called Wikimedia UK, but will use this as our operating name. We therefore need a legal name - see /Company name for background and suggestions.

Domains

wikipedia.co.uk - owned by Bomis, redirect to the English Wikipedia
wikipedia.org.uk - owned by Chris Brooking, redirect to the English Wikipedia
wikimedia.co.uk - owned by James F., currently (a somewhat basic) Wikipedia portal
wikimedia.org.uk - owned by James F., currently (a somewhat basic) Wikipedia portal

Mailing list

WikimediaUK-l

People interested in helping to create a local chapter

Angela
Constafrequent
Imran
sannse
James F.
nsh
Nicholas Shanks
Charles Matthews
Kwekubo
David Gerard
cfp
VampWillow
Scott Keir
Oldak Quill
Stewart Adcock
Paul Y
LoopZilla
Dan100
Theo Clarke
Dazzles
Francstwothousand
The wub
MrWeeble
ClareWhite
Cormaggio
Matthew Platts
Craigy144
Ce garcon
Secretlondon
Rich Farmbrough
notafish - Delphine. of course :-)
Thryduulf
Andreww
Buffyg
y_control
Sam Korn
jguk
ALoan
The Land
Nile_hef
Harry Wood
Shimgray
Arwel Parry
JFW
Greg Robson
en:User:Steve block
Justin Cormack
User:Mistress Selina Kyle(en:User:Mistress Selina Kyle) - I will do whatever I can however I don't know what this would be at the moment.. (I came up with the idea of a registered charity myself (here) and was pointed over here ;)
Marcika
FrancisTyers
frelke
Chris Q
Emoscopes
Talrias

Meetings

Next meeting

Next meeting: To be arranged

These are proposed dates for a face to face meeting; however, it is unclear if this is necessary.

4th February 2006

LoopZilla
Cormaggio ^@ - I think I can make this weekend too
Thryduulf (en,commons) (probably)

5th February 2006

LoopZilla
Cormaggio ^@
Thryduulf (en,commons) (probably). Saturdays are generally easier though.

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+Next meeting: To be arranged
-Next meeting: James's house! (This is for initial directors only. My guess is that we will admit as members those who have been active so far in helping set up the company, if they wish to be members, at our first meeting - though I'll have to check that with others, [[User:Jguk|Jguk]] 19:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC))
 These are proposed dates for a face to face meeting; however, it is unclear if this is necessary.

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