Board Members

Board Members

Job description: http://wikispot.org/Organizational_plans?action=Files&do=view&target=board_job_description.pdf

For incorporation needs, Philip has been filed as CEO (Executive Director), Brent as CFO and Secretary. At the first board meeting, these can change.

The initial board:

• Brent Laabs
  

• Paul Harms
  

• Philip Neustrom
  

• Arlen Abraham
  

• Graham Freeman
  

• Evan Edwards
  

• Jason Aller

I'm excited to serve on the board of directors for Wiki Spot, and I look forward to helping to work toward the following:

• Defining and implementing a governance mechanism that gives equal voice to all Wiki Spot stakeholders

• Building a board that is more reflective of the diversity of the communities whose wikis are hosted at Wiki Spot

• Defining measurable goals for Wiki Spot

• Creating and executing a fundraising plan that shares the load equally amongst all stakeholders

• Identifying and implementing legal protections in support of free speech appropriate for community wikis

• Drafting and implementing a plan for a robust technical infrastructure that protects against single points of failure

• Drafting and beginning to implement a plan for appropriate staffing of Wiki Spot, using an appropriate mix of volunteer, contract, and staff positions.

To that end, I intend to stand for Chair, Vice-Chair, or a similar position on the Wiki Spot Board of Directors.

I'm primarily interested in improving the technological infrastructure of Wiki Spot. We will have trouble improving without a good organizational base. This means fundraising, outreach and fundraising. There's so much we need to invest in — staff, new hardware, outreach spending — and we have a lot of untapped potential (we've not fundraised since the formation of wikispot.org).

As Executive Director, I see my role as the liaison between the board (long-term planning, fundraising) and the day-to-day operations. But some of my hopes for this upcoming year, non-board related, are:

• More active maintenance and development of our codebase.
  

• Switch-over to our GUI editor.
  

• Implement semantic wiki features.
  

• Improve basics of our systems infrastructure: replication, handless backups. This requires funds.

Board related:

• Help us run a successful 2009 fundraiser that hits or exceeds our fundraising targets.
  

• Help the board and organization reach a state of cohesiveness where I could disappear and things would not entirely explode.

See also: Contact

I would like to see Wiki Spot's accessability improve during my term on the board. The most pertinent need is for a GUI editor, but I would like to explore other ways to improve the user experience.

At the board meeting on 24 Jan 09, the following people expressed interest in serving on the board:

Ashley Hamidi

William Lewis