Meeting August 2007

An Advisory Board meeting was planned for August 1-2 2007 in Taipei before that year's Wikimania Conference.

To do

If you are on the Advisory Board and attending this meeting, please:

1. register for Wikimania;
2. Submit an abstract;
3. check you are on the attendees list if you are coming;
4. check your bio on wikimania2007 is correct;
5. let Angela know if you need funding;
6. help to plan the agenda.

Attendees

Will attend

Accommodation is in the Grand Hotel.

Advisory:

Name	Registered	Accommodation
Angela Beesley	Yes	7/29 - 8/8
Heather Ford	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Melissa Hagemann	Yes	7/31 to 8/5
Teemu Leinonen	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Rebecca MacKinnon	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Wayne Mackintosh	Yes	Will book own accomm
Benjamin Mako Hill	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Erin McKean	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Achal Prabhala	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Raoul Weiler	Yes	7/31 to 8/6
Ward Cunningham	Yes	7/31 to 8/5

Trustees:

• Jimmy Wales
• Florence Devouard
• Jan-Bart De Vreede
• Erik Möller
• Kat Walsh
• Frieda Brioschi (new board member)

Facilitator

• Manon

Staff

• Sue Gardner

Can not attend

• Danny Hillis
• Mitch Kapor
• Jay Rosen
• Peter Suber
• Trevor Neilson
• Michael Davis
• Debbie Garside
• Ethan Zuckerman
• Clay Shirky
• Joris Komen

Agenda

The retreat is fundamentally a strategic planning retreat with dedicated time to address organization-wide goals and issues. Another objective is for the participants to get to know each other, to find out each others skills, to share insight on free knowledge and non-profits organization, and hopefully, start building teams.

See Meeting August 2007/agenda and Meeting August 2007/Program for more information.

A leaflet was produced by Sean and Anthere, and distributed during the meeting. The document can be downloaded here.

Travel, Accommodation & Funding

Funding

Your room and most meals will be covered by WMF.

Travel

For more general information about your travel:

• Information about visas: air tickets and airlines, airport information, visa information
• Local transportation: from airport to venue and getting around in Taipei and Taiwan. taxi, MRT & bus
• Local information: all other things one may need to know before going to Taiwan: language information, currencies, units, climate, voltage and plug type, any special rules for customs/immigration, other special laws/regulations/customs, etc.

Accomodation

Accommodation has been booked at the Grand Hotel.

Meeting room

• Where to go: 323 CTOYAC education building.

Required equipment:

• Room with internet access
• Projector
• Enough room to put papers on the wall
• Big sheets of paper
• Stuff to hand or stick these sheets on the walls
• Rigid board to hold the paper on which we write down
• Colored stickers that we can stick on sheets of paper (these little colored dots)
• Colored stabilo and pencils
• Colored A4 pages
• Projector
• Scissors
• Coffee!

• spreadsheet - babemaco will buy these things on July 30.

Notes and reports

Notes and outcomes may be found here

http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/?p=74 Erik blogged about the meeting