Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board diversity

2015-06-06 Thread Samuel Klein
Yes. Actively inviting people with mixed backgrounds - which started to happen this year - is a step in the right direction. But we might look for ways to explicitly aim for more thorough geo + culture + language diversity, since these map directly onto awareness of knowledge resources & practice

[Wikimedia-l] Board diversity

2015-06-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[ Split from "Results of 2015 WMF Board elections‏" ] 2015-06-06 13:19 GMT+03:00 Chris Keating : > 2) There is nothing in the process to produce any diversity in the result. Indeed. I don't see much active effort to encourage diversity in gender, professional skills, economic background, language