議事録:2005-10-01

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A Board meeting was held on IRC on October 1, to discuss and approve the Foundation budget for 2005Q4. The meeting was attended by the Board of Trustees (Angela Beesley, Michael Davis, Florence Devouard, Tim Shell, and Jimmy Wales), the Chief Financial Officer (Daniel Mayer), and the Local Chapters Coordinator (Delphine Ménard).

The budget is posted at: Budget/2005#Quarter 4 (1 October to 31 December)

The following points were discussed during the meeting:

• ハードウェアコスト: 19万米ドル
  • We failed to spend all budgeted funds in previous quarter; however, this was not because we did not need the new servers but because of lack of money and time. Hence we should not adjust 4th quarter expenses down.
  • Domas Mitzuas will itemize hardware needs and assign dollar amounts to each item
• ホスト料: 2万4000米ドル
  • 新しいサーバーにより、より高速なサイトが作られますが、処理コストも膨大になるでしょう
  • Will see about moving images to other servers where we are given free bandwidth
• ドメイン名: 500米ドル
  • 期限切れのドメインは約100ドルかかります
  • Additional money allocated for new domains that are donated or which we might plausibly want to use
  • Disagreement about how aggressive we should be gobbling up new domains, with Jimmy, Daniel, and Michael arguing for aggressiveness, which strategy we shall use for time being. Further debate to follow.
• 個人:
  • Estimated insuarance and tax costs on top of regular salary for executive assistant and chief technical officer.
  • Office assistant needed for routine tasks such as stuffing envelopes, which executive assistant is far too busy for; will try to get volunteers for this position, but budgeted US$3,000 for a part-time (20 hours per week) employee.
  • Hardware assistant item increased from US$1,500 to US$2,000 in anticipation of many new servers being purchased
• 旅行:
  • US$7,500 for travel will include 3 persons to WSIS in Tunis
  • For sake of transparency, Daniel will publish actual travel expenses as he gets better access to relevant data
• Legal expenses, insurance, and trademarks:
  • 4000ドルから最大1万ドル増額
  • anticipating more in the way of trademark applications
  • Will be getting legal insurance, which is an unknown cost but possibly more expensive then previously anticipated
  • Part of this is money to be set aside as a reserve for future legal issues
• 事務費:
  • US$5,900 for rent plus furniture and a new computer; the Wikimedia Foundation now occupying a larger office with more people (executive assistant, office assistants in near future), hence an increase in office expenses.
• 支部の設立費用:
  • US$2,000 a quarter as decided upon last budget meeting, with nothing new causing us to change this
• 宣伝:
  • 3000 to cover some but not all of the items listed here: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_budget/2005/Q4/promo
• 財政費用
  • Fees related to fundraising, estimated to be US$10,000 for every US$200,000 we raise
• Miscellaneous expenses:
  • Set at around 2% of total budget, or US$6,000
• 予約:
  • 予算の10%または29200米ドル
• 次の資金調達:
  • Current accounts are US$160,000 short of budgeted expenses
  • 12月1日に新しい活動を開始
  • Details to be worked out at next fundraising meeting, to be scheduled soon