Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Feedback: Community Board seats and February 2 office hours

2021-02-01 Thread Ad Huikeshoven 
Members of the Board of Trustees and staff of the Wikimedia Foundation,

Please WMF Board of Trustees grant control of the WMF Board elections to
the Wikimedia community, especially to the two existing committees. The
Wikimedia community can manage its own values and ethics and has no need of
non-volunteer, non-community members to assist with the fundamentals of
designing the election.

On behalf of the ASBS committee I request you
* remove the "problems to solve" section from that page,
* remove the "ideas discussed with the board" section from that page,
* remove the 8 subpages with "ideas"
* include a section with words like:
"The Board asks the Election committee and ASBS election facilitators to
work together to set up a process, define rules, and hold a (s)election
process for six community- and affiliate sourced board seats. The board
asks the joined committee to pay respect to the strategic direction of the
Wikimedia Movement and the strategy recommendations. The board would like
to welcome a diversity of candidates. The board oversees an organization
with an annual budget over one hundred million dollaras and a staff of over
500 people. The board would like to welcome candidates with governance
experience in non-profit organizations of the same magnitude."

The ASBS election facilitators published their debrief of lessons learned
in 2019.[1] We as a committee are committed to act upon them. The ASBS
committee is prepared to collaborate with the standing election committee
for this process.[2]


Regards,

Ad Huikeshoven
On behalf of the ASBS election facilitators.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Debrief.
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:01 PM Jackie Koerner 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am reaching out because the Call for Feedback for the
> community-and-affiliate board seats officially began today and runs through
> March 14. [1] We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback.
> With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing
> multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.
>
> On February 2 we have three options for office hours. [2]
>
> 2021-02-02 at 12:00 UTC
> 2021-02-02 at 18:00 UTC
> 2021-02-02 at 23:00 UTC
>
> Access links will be available 15 minutes before each session.
>
> Please let me know if you would like to schedule another time for your
> community or group to provide feedback.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best,
>
> Jackie
>
> --
> *Jackie Koerner*
>
> *she/her*
> Communication Facilitator, Board Governance
> *English language communities and Meta*
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/2021-02-02_-_First_Office_Hour
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[Wikimedia-l] Call for Feedback: Community Board seats and February 2 office hours

2021-02-01 Thread Jackie Koerner 
Hello all,

I am reaching out because the Call for Feedback for the
community-and-affiliate board seats officially began today and runs through
March 14. [1] We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback.
With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing
multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

On February 2 we have three options for office hours. [2]

2021-02-02 at 12:00 UTC
2021-02-02 at 18:00 UTC
2021-02-02 at 23:00 UTC

Access links will be available 15 minutes before each session.

Please let me know if you would like to schedule another time for your
community or group to provide feedback.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Jackie

-- 
*Jackie Koerner*

*she/her*
Communication Facilitator, Board Governance
*English language communities and Meta*

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/2021-02-02_-_First_Office_Hour
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