Fortunately the Board isn't required to consider whether hypothetically in
future some other organisation's interests might conflict with the
Foundation's: only whether in practice they do.
(By the way, I am not surprised people read your original email as calling
for Kelly to resign - it was the
Hi folks!
I made something that I think is pretty cool: a watchface for Pebble
smartwatches that shows you the nearest unphotographed Wikipedia
article. I've been using it for about a month, and I'm really happy
with how it's turned out. I've taken a lot of photos for articles that
I wouldn't have
To clarify, the issues facing the WMF preexisted Denny, Dariusz and myself
joining the board. Our perspectives started the process of addressing
things. In fact I raised concerns regarding staff turn over a couple of
weeks before joining the board at Wikimania.
James
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:18 A
Lodewijk, Anders, James, Dariusz, thanks for your input!
Re: timing. I absolutely agree. But internal discussions are not happening
at once as well, before writing this I have waited for people to chime in
with the arguments to have my own opinion shaped. I would really love to
find a good balance
+1 to what Lodewijk, Anders, and James wrote.
I see benefits in onboarding around Wikimania, and having a system in which
each year we add three people (one year from the community, one from
chapters, one from experts).
However, I don't see it as an argument to extend the terms for current
truste
The last group of community elected trustees were presented with an
exceedingly difficult issue to solve months into their term. Moral among
staff was critically low and many key employees had left, were leaving, or
were thinking about leaving.
The board at that time disagreed about what to do abo
My experience from following the board of WMSE several years, and where
we now have two years terms is
First year is a learning phase where you more listen then participate
Second year most get more involved and find it very stimulated to be in
the Board
Third year some get very active, whil
Hi Nataliia,
It would have been nice if you could have shared this a bit earlier, given
that apparently the board meeting is next week. This gives little time for
discussion of your proposal, on a topic that has received wide interest
previously. Perhaps that could be considered a point for improv
Hi all,
I am forking a discussion on Wikimedia Foundation Board of trustees vacant
appointed seat(s) and turnover at this point.
== The Board members start and end terms (Turnover) ==
I have drafted here three charts indicating the starting and ending of the
terms of the Board members:
https://m