Looking at the next five years/Other issues

• What are the benefits of membership?

• Part of the democratic process
• Is it against the ethos of the Wikimedia movement to have a special class of people?

• Co-option of trustees

• Are members going to get opportunities to meet potential trustees? Get them to wikimeets?

• There are huge value in meeting face to face
• We have subjective measurement, what about quantitative measurement? We need KPIs!
• We have discussed actions levels, and missions levels – X years plan need goals level
• Are the targets SMART & achievable. Are they specific?
• Distinction between strategy and specific action
• Some goals may change, but some will always exist like diversity, sum of all human knowledge, etc.
• We have a capacity problem, which affects our plan in the future.
• 5 year plan doesn't fix us on a specific course, we can use it as a rolling program of review.
• There's a distinction between Foundation's objects compared that to WMUK.
• Breaking boundary
• WMUK is intrinsic part of Wikimedia community
• Look forward 5 years, but be able to adjust change in environment. The community haven't behave in a corporate way. The charity has a habit of becoming a bit corporate. Be careful to avoid becoming completely corporate. Involve volunteer in our activities and actions.
• 5 years ago, WMUK didn't exist. We changes very quickly. We should do a rolling program of review to change 5 years plan.
• We can think in parameters – e.g. do we want to carry on growing staff level?
• Long term planning is not about predicting, it's about what we want to achieve.
• We can always change a 5 year plan into a 3 or 10 years plan in the future while keeping the same goals.
• Can we learn from WMDE's lessons?
• Avoid splitting the chapter community and that of the Wikimedia community.
• Potential metric might be how many things has happened without staff involvements.
• We are volunteer focused, but there may be things that we would like to do that no volunteer will or want to do.

How are we doing with transparency?

• Lots of material is available, but work need to be done curating the information, making it accessible to tech etc. community, not just Wikimedians. Communicate our goals.
• Are information being lost in the sea of information that's available? Do we want to release targeted information and only make the rest available for reqeust?
• WMUK is clear we're looking for people, but not being very prescriptive in what it is looking for.
• Instead of focusing on what you don't like, we should focus on what we do like.
• We need experienced people to focus on strategy.