Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee update

[Dariusz Jemielniak]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Sydney Poore 
wrote:

> With the growth in new methods and processes is the Board planning to have
> a method to  monitor/measure the success of these activities?
>

in fact, we have discussed a public "to-do" tracking system, but we are
shorthanded and it is not likely to happen this calendar year. However, the
idea has support and I believe we'll get there.

dj
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee update

[Sydney Poore]

Hello Dariusz,

Thank you for the time that you are sending working on the Governance
Committee.

I appreciate this email that shares your progress and future plans. Many of
the ideas sound helpful and effective to address some long term problems.

With the growth in new methods and processes is the Board planning to have
a method to  monitor/measure the success of these activities?

Sydney Poore/FloNight
On Jun 27, 2016 2:46 PM, "Dariusz Jemielniak"  wrote:

hi all,

this is an update on the work of the Board Governance Committee over the
last months that some of you have requested.

Among other things, the Board Governance Committee has worked on:
- Creating the Board’s competence matrix[1],
- Discussing the most critical needs for the expert seats, and proposing
technology (deep, intimate understanding of how software works, possibly
coming from open-source involvement), as well as global organization and
community management and change in non-profit world as the major ones,
- Discussing the calendar for the vacant expert seat recruitment, and
adjusting to the WMF HR staff available support (scheduled to start in
August),
- Discussing the vacant community seats solutions (and proposing shortening
the terms and having community elections in early 2017, so that the elected
members would join the Board at April meeting),
- Appointing the new Election Committee (and proposing a process in which
the further development of this body will be partially transferred to the
community),
- Reviewing the possibilities for an external Board review (as recommended
by the FDC),
- Increasing transparency (a set of concrete measures soon to be put
forward by Dariusz and Maria, following several discussions),
- Introducing a workshop[2] for external Board members about wiki-culture
and copyright (topics picked by the community[3]) at Wikimania,
- Conducting an internal Board[4] survey about our understanding of our
tasks, governance practices, etc.
- Discussing general governance improvements[5] for the Board.

We have also considered introducing one centralized place on meta for
Board-community communication, but after discussion with the staff we have
concluded that we're going to rely on small incremental improvements in
communication first.

The remaining topics still include:
- the Advisory Board redesign/restart,
- the Board's composition and structure analysis,
- possible external reviews or consulting,
- introducing workshops on best governance practices (and other topics of
interest) for Board members,
- other governance improvements and tasks.

let me know if you have any questions!

dj "pundit"

(current Trustee and BGC member, passing BGC chairing to Natalia Tymkiv)



[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/2016_competence_matrix
[2]
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions/Proposals/Wikimedia_Movement_Culture_workshop
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/Wikimania_2016_training
[4]  https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2016-03
[5]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_Governance_Recommendations_(April_2016)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Governance Committee update

[Samuel Klein]

On Jun 28, 2016 00:42, "MZMcBride"  wrote:
>
> Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
> >this is an update on the work of the Board Governance Committee over the
> >last months that some of you have requested.
> >
> >[...]
>
> Thank you for this update!

Warmly seconded.  Following up on one of the threads from Wikimania: this
is the sort of practical transparency that helps us all improve in our own
work :)
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