* Correction: the president and secretary must be different people. Pine
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a public update about Cascadia Wikimedians organization and plans. > > Cascadia board members who were present at tonight's meeting expressed an > interest in keeping the Cascadia organization active and under the > governance of a local board. Peaceray believes that he will have additional > capacity for Cascadia starting in November. The tentative plan is for me to > hand off most of my Cascadia responsibilities to Peaceray in November. This > is contingent on further discussions with the board members who were not > present at tonight's meeting. In particular, it would be helpful if someone > else is willing take on the role of board secretary (the treasurer and the > secretary must be different people), and I am hopeful that one of the > members who was not present tonight will be willing to accept that role. If > all goes well I will hand off that responsibility by the end of November, > and after all handoffs are complete I plan to resign from my officer and > board roles for Cascadia. I will remain active with Wikimedia in other > capacities and am likely to continue to attend Cascadia events, but as a > participant rather than an organizer. (: > > Regarding plans for future activities, we are hopeful that there will be > additional capacity for programmatic work later this year. > > To keep the Cascadia organization "active" next year in the eyes of the > State of Washington, we need to continue to file paperwork and pay annual > fees. The board members who attended tonight's meeting are hopeful that > even if WMF doesn't fund these fees for next year (due to a shortage of > programmatic work) that we will be able to raise the minimum necessary > funds through a combination of dues and donations. > > Thank you for your continued interest in Cascadia Wikimedians. Updates > will be provided as more information becomes available. > > Regards, > > Pine > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
