Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have started to collect some information..
PS Tanya Welcome !!
Thanks,
 GerardM

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On 19 July 2018 at 17:33, Christophe Henner  wrote:

> And because I can't step down properly, a part of the email was missing,
> here is the complete version
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> *I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia Foundation Board
> of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally joined the Board.
> Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has worked as a Vice
> President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO for the software
> firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served on the boards of
> various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the financial and
> accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation and to her
> role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she was also
> elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the Wikimedia
> movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand,
> two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service come to a
> close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the board and the
> Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly and Alice, you
> have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement, and it has been
> an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as has often been
> the case with other former trustees, our movement will be lucky enough we
> keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on bringing your
> experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might have noticed we
> still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are currently
> searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform background;
> you can read the profile here on Commons
>  Recruiting_Candidate_Packet_May_2018.pdf>.
> Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and
> Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I
> decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively
> as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and
> I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and
> prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local Wikimedia
> organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair of
> the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman and
> Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also
> elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members María
> and Dariusz.  Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the
> Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy as
> alternates.  More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are
> below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new
> positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal
> note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not
> farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am proud
> I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future of
> the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best is
> yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently
> was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing company
> G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has
> wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and
> analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has also
> worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous
> education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the
> boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have
> a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco
> chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University alumni
> life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education, and
> a master of business administration from the university. After graduating,
> she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and Development
> Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also
> served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of
> Business.Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two
> children. They enjoy traveling as a family and outdoor sports.About María
> SefidariMaría Sefidari Huici is a professor in the Digital Communications,
> Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of Rey Juan Carlos
> University at the MediaLab-Prado.Born in Madrid, Spain, where she still
> lives today, María 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

[Nurunnaby Hasive]

Congratulations from Bangladesh.

Hasive
WMBD

On Fri, 20 Jul, 2018 at 4:52 AM, Lucas Teles  wrote:

> Congrats from Brazil.
>
> Hope for a community of editors and contributors as diverse as the Board
> already is.
>
> Teles
>
> Em qui, 19 de jul de 2018 às 12:34, Christophe Henner <
> chen...@wikimedia.org>
> escreveu:
>
> > And because I can't step down properly, a part of the email was missing,
> > here is the complete version
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> >
> > *Hello everyone,*
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> > *I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia Foundation
> Board
> > of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally joined the Board.
> > Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has worked as a Vice
> > President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO for the
> software
> > firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served on the boards
> of
> > various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the financial and
> > accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation and to her
> > role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she was also
> > elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the Wikimedia
> > movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand,
> > two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service come to a
> > close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the board and
> the
> > Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly and Alice,
> you
> > have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement, and it has
> been
> > an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as has often been
> > the case with other former trustees, our movement will be lucky enough we
> > keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on bringing your
> > experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might have noticed we
> > still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are currently
> > searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform background;
> > you can read the profile here on Commons
> > <
> >
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Board_Recruiting_Candidate_Packet_May_2018.pdf
> > >.
> > Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and
> > Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I
> > decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively
> > as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María
> and
> > I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and
> > prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local
> Wikimedia
> > organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair
> of
> > the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman
> and
> > Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also
> > elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members
> María
> > and Dariusz.  Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the
> > Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy
> as
> > alternates.  More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are
> > below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new
> > positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal
> > note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not
> > farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am
> proud
> > I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future
> of
> > the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best
> is
> > yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently
> > was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing
> company
> > G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has
> > wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and
> > analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has
> also
> > worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous
> > education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the
> > boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I
> Have
> > a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco
> > chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University
> alumni
> > life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education,
> and
> > a master of business administration from the university. After
> graduating,
> > she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and
> Development
> > Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also
> > served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of
> > Business.Tanya 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

[Lucas Teles]

Congrats from Brazil.

Hope for a community of editors and contributors as diverse as the Board
already is.

Teles

Em qui, 19 de jul de 2018 às 12:34, Christophe Henner 
escreveu:

> And because I can't step down properly, a part of the email was missing,
> here is the complete version
>
>
>
> *Hello everyone,*
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> *I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia Foundation Board
> of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally joined the Board.
> Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has worked as a Vice
> President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO for the software
> firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served on the boards of
> various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the financial and
> accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation and to her
> role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she was also
> elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the Wikimedia
> movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand,
> two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service come to a
> close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the board and the
> Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly and Alice, you
> have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement, and it has been
> an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as has often been
> the case with other former trustees, our movement will be lucky enough we
> keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on bringing your
> experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might have noticed we
> still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are currently
> searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform background;
> you can read the profile here on Commons
> <
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Board_Recruiting_Candidate_Packet_May_2018.pdf
> >.
> Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and
> Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I
> decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively
> as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and
> I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and
> prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local Wikimedia
> organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair of
> the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman and
> Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also
> elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members María
> and Dariusz.  Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the
> Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy as
> alternates.  More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are
> below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new
> positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal
> note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not
> farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am proud
> I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future of
> the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best is
> yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently
> was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing company
> G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has
> wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and
> analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has also
> worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous
> education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the
> boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have
> a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco
> chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University alumni
> life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education, and
> a master of business administration from the university. After graduating,
> she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and Development
> Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also
> served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of
> Business.Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two
> children. They enjoy traveling as a family and outdoor sports.About María
> SefidariMaría Sefidari Huici is a professor in the Digital Communications,
> Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of Rey Juan Carlos
> University at the MediaLab-Prado.Born in Madrid, Spain, where she still
> lives today, María graduated with a 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

[Christophe Henner]

And because I can't step down properly, a part of the email was missing,
here is the complete version



*Hello everyone,*





































*I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia Foundation Board
of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally joined the Board.
Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has worked as a Vice
President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO for the software
firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served on the boards of
various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the financial and
accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation and to her
role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she was also
elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the Wikimedia
movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand,
two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service come to a
close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the board and the
Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly and Alice, you
have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement, and it has been
an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as has often been
the case with other former trustees, our movement will be lucky enough we
keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on bringing your
experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might have noticed we
still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are currently
searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform background;
you can read the profile here on Commons
.
Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and
Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I
decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively
as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and
I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and
prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local Wikimedia
organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair of
the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman and
Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also
elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members María
and Dariusz.  Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the
Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy as
alternates.  More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are
below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new
positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal
note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not
farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am proud
I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future of
the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best is
yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently
was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing company
G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has
wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and
analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has also
worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous
education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the
boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have
a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco
chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University alumni
life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education, and
a master of business administration from the university. After graduating,
she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and Development
Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also
served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of
Business.Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two
children. They enjoy traveling as a family and outdoor sports.About María
SefidariMaría Sefidari Huici is a professor in the Digital Communications,
Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of Rey Juan Carlos
University at the MediaLab-Prado.Born in Madrid, Spain, where she still
lives today, María graduated with a Psychology degree from Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, and later a Master's degree in Management and
Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university. She was a 2014
Techweek Women’s Leadership Fellow, which showcases, celebrates, and
supports emerging female leaders in business and technology.María started
contributing to the Wikimedia projects 

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions 2018

[Christophe Henner]

*Hello everyone,I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally
joined the Board. Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has
worked as a Vice President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO
for the software firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served
on the boards of various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the
financial and accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation
and to her role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she
was also elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the
Wikimedia movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice
Wiegand, two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service
come to a close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the
board and the Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly
and Alice, you have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement,
and it has been an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as
has often been the case with other former trustees, our movement will be
lucky enough we keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on
bringing your experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might
have noticed we still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are
currently searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform
background; you can read the profile here on Commons
.
Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and
Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I
decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively
as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and
I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and
prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local Wikimedia
organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair of
the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman and
Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also
elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members María
and Dariusz.  Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the
Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy as
alternates.  More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are
below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new
positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal
note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not
farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am proud
I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future of
the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best is
yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently
was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing company
G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has
wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and
analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has also
worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous
education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the
boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have
a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco
chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University alumni
life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education, and
a master of business administration from the university. After graduating,
she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and Development
Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also
served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of
Business.Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two
children. They enjoy traveling as a family and outdoor sports.About María
SefidariMaría Sefidari Huici is a professor in the Digital Communications,
Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of Rey Juan Carlos *



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[Asaf Bartov]

Perhaps we can agree it is, properly, a *nomination by community
election* process, and lay this thread to rest. :)

A.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:01 AM Katie Chan  wrote:

> On 23/08/2017 15:32, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> > On 23 August 2017 at 12:32, Katie Chan  wrote:
> >>
> >> Let's go with the broader definition from (en) Wiktionary - "A process
> of
> >> choosing ... or other representatives by popular vote.", or even beyond
> the
> >> first sentence from en Wikipedia - "To elect means "to choose or make a
> >> decision", and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums
> are
> >> referred to as elections, especially in the United States.".
> >
> > The community does not chose the representatives. It merely makes
> > *non-binding* recommendations.
> >
> > The choice - as to whether *or not* to accept them - rests entirely
> > with the board.
>
> The winners are still the chosen representatives of the community even
> if the existing board were not to appoint them to the board for whatever
> reasons or none, there were still an election.
>
> In the 13 years and 10 elections that has taken place, all the winners
> has been appointed by the way as far as I can tell, why the focus on
> that one word? Maybe feedback or suggestion to the overall process [1]
> would be more useful?
>
> Katie
>
> [1]:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Post_mortem
>
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[Katie Chan]

On 23/08/2017 15:32, Andy Mabbett wrote:

On 23 August 2017 at 12:32, Katie Chan  wrote:


Let's go with the broader definition from (en) Wiktionary - "A process of
choosing ... or other representatives by popular vote.", or even beyond the
first sentence from en Wikipedia - "To elect means "to choose or make a
decision", and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are
referred to as elections, especially in the United States.".


The community does not chose the representatives. It merely makes
*non-binding* recommendations.

The choice - as to whether *or not* to accept them - rests entirely
with the board.


The winners are still the chosen representatives of the community even 
if the existing board were not to appoint them to the board for whatever 
reasons or none, there were still an election.


In the 13 years and 10 elections that has taken place, all the winners 
has been appointed by the way as far as I can tell, why the focus on 
that one word? Maybe feedback or suggestion to the overall process [1] 
would be more useful?


Katie

[1]: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Post_mortem



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[Thyge]

I think we all know the substance of this topic  and have known for quite
some time. Everyone may call the procedure whatever suits her/him best.

Regards
Thyge - Sir48

2017-08-23 16:32 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett :

> On 23 August 2017 at 12:32, Katie Chan  wrote:
> > On 23/08/2017 00:33, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> By definition, no, it is not. "An election is a formal group
> >> decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to
> >> hold public office." In this case the choice of who holds office is
> >> made by the board, not the community who "vote". At best it's a
> >> nomination process.
> >>
> >
> > Let's go with the broader definition from (en) Wiktionary - "A process of
> > choosing ... or other representatives by popular vote.", or even beyond
> the
> > first sentence from en Wikipedia - "To elect means "to choose or make a
> > decision", and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are
> > referred to as elections, especially in the United States.".
>
> The community does not chose the representatives. It merely makes
> *non-binding* recommendations.
>
> The choice - as to whether *or not* to accept them - rests entirely
> with the board.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Andy Mabbett]

On 23 August 2017 at 12:32, Katie Chan  wrote:
> On 23/08/2017 00:33, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>>
>> By definition, no, it is not. "An election is a formal group
>> decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to
>> hold public office." In this case the choice of who holds office is
>> made by the board, not the community who "vote". At best it's a
>> nomination process.
>>
>
> Let's go with the broader definition from (en) Wiktionary - "A process of
> choosing ... or other representatives by popular vote.", or even beyond the
> first sentence from en Wikipedia - "To elect means "to choose or make a
> decision", and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are
> referred to as elections, especially in the United States.".

The community does not chose the representatives. It merely makes
*non-binding* recommendations.

The choice - as to whether *or not* to accept them - rests entirely
with the board.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Katie Chan]

** Personal views follow **

On 22/08/2017 20:10, Andy Mabbett wrote:



María and Dariusz, were re-elected after the recent community election.


This is not correct. There was no "community election"; the community
is only empowered to /nominate/ candidates, which the board may or may
not appoint, at its whim.

Please be more careful to use accurate terms on such points, in the future.



Multiple people put themselves forward for the community considerations. 
The community then voted on it, resulting in a ranking by who got most 
votes based on the voting system used. By definition, that's an 
election. The electoral consisted of members of the Wikimedia community. 
Ergo, there was a community election.


That the winning candidates does not automatically become a member of 
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as a result due (at least 
partly) to legal reasons does not make it any less of an election.


"A vote by the Wikimedia community for X numbers of winners to be 
considered by the WMF BoT for appointment as its members" is still an 
election.


Regards,

Katie


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Andy Mabbett]

On 11 August 2017 at 16:16, Christophe Henner  wrote:

> As is customary, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met right
> before Wikimania and appointed new trustees and elected its officers.

Yes; the board /appointed/ new trustees...

> María and Dariusz, were re-elected after the recent community election.

This is not correct. There was no "community election"; the community
is only empowered to /nominate/ candidates, which the board may or may
not appoint, at its whim.

Please be more careful to use accurate terms on such points, in the future.

[The above not withstanding, congratulations to new - and returning -
trustees and officers; and thank you for your service to them and
those departing]

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Jean-Philippe Béland]

Congrats to all re-elected!

JP


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM Shani Evenstein 
wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Christophe. Wishing the board  a productive,
> fruitful and smooth year!
>
> And Happy Wikimania, everyone, especially to all the Wikimedians who
> couldn't make it this year.
> So great that we have live-streaming this year (thanks again, Melody &
> Eddie!) and can participate and support from all ends of the world.
>
> Best,
> Shani.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Christophe Henner 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > As is customary, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met right
> > before Wikimania and appointed new trustees and elected its officers.
> >
> > This is a rare occasion as I will not need to write a farewell email. The
> > two Board members that were finishing their terms, María and Dariusz,
> were
> > re-elected after the recent community election. And as of today, James
> > Heilman has formally rejoined the Board of Trustees.
> >
> > Today the Board also elected the officer positions. I am pleased to
> report
> > that the Board has reiterated its trust in the current officers, and both
> > María and I will continue serving as Vice Chair and Chair of the Board,
> > respectively, for another year.
> >
> > It feels a little weird to write this email as there's not much change
> from
> > last year. But I believe that stability and continuity are more than
> > welcome!
> >
> > So please, join me in "welcoming" María, Dariusz, and James as trustees
> of
> > the Wikimedia Foundation Board.
> >
> > María Sefidari began contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006 and
> has
> > since served in several roles across the Wikimedia movement. She was a
> > founding member of Wikimedia España and Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias,
> and
> > she also helped create Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject. She has
> served
> > on several Foundation governance committees, including the Affiliations
> and
> > Individual Engagement Grants committees. María is a professor in the
> > Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program
> of
> > Rey Juan Carlos University at the MediaLab-Prado in Madrid, Spain. She
> has
> > previously served on the Board from August 2013 to July 2015, and most
> > recently joined the Board once again in January 2016. She has been
> selected
> > for a second term which will conclude at Wikimania 2020.
> >
> > Dariusz Jemielniak has held a variety of roles on Wikimedia projects,
> > including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward and ombudsman. He
> > served as the chair of the Wikimedia community’s Funds Dissemination
> > Committee for three terms and is the author of “Common knowledge?: An
> > Ethnography of Wikipedia.” Dariusz is a full professor of Management, the
> > head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces, and a
> > co-founder of the New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group at
> > Kozminski University. Dariusz has been re-appointed for a second term as
> a
> > Trustee after first joining the Board in July 2015.
> >
> > James Heilman, M.D.,  has helped to found both Wikimedia Canada and
> > WikiProject Med Foundation. As an emergency physician in Cranbrook,
> British
> > Columbia, and a faculty member of emergency medicine at the University of
> > British Columbia, James is an active member of the medical community on
> > Wikimedia projects. James has also been involved in establishing
> > collaborations with several organizations, including Translators Without
> > Borders and the World Health Organization, to improve Wikimedia’s
> coverage
> > of medical content. James previously served on the Board of Trustees from
> > July to December 2015.
> >
> > Christophe Henner has been a leader within the Wikimedia community for
> more
> > than 12 years. Prior to joining the Foundation Board in 2016, he served
> as
> > Board Chair of Wikimedia France, and had been a member of the chapter’s
> > Board since 2007. During this time, he spent nearly three years in Vice
> > Chair and Chair positions. Christophe is currently the Chief Operating
> > Officer (COO) of the Blade Group, a cloud computing company headquartered
> > in France. At Blade, Christophe is scaling up operations to support the
> > company's transition from a start-up to a global company.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Shani Evenstein]

Thanks for the update, Christophe. Wishing the board  a productive,
fruitful and smooth year!

And Happy Wikimania, everyone, especially to all the Wikimedians who
couldn't make it this year.
So great that we have live-streaming this year (thanks again, Melody &
Eddie!) and can participate and support from all ends of the world.

Best,
Shani.


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Christophe Henner 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> As is customary, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met right
> before Wikimania and appointed new trustees and elected its officers.
>
> This is a rare occasion as I will not need to write a farewell email. The
> two Board members that were finishing their terms, María and Dariusz, were
> re-elected after the recent community election. And as of today, James
> Heilman has formally rejoined the Board of Trustees.
>
> Today the Board also elected the officer positions. I am pleased to report
> that the Board has reiterated its trust in the current officers, and both
> María and I will continue serving as Vice Chair and Chair of the Board,
> respectively, for another year.
>
> It feels a little weird to write this email as there's not much change from
> last year. But I believe that stability and continuity are more than
> welcome!
>
> So please, join me in "welcoming" María, Dariusz, and James as trustees of
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board.
>
> María Sefidari began contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006 and has
> since served in several roles across the Wikimedia movement. She was a
> founding member of Wikimedia España and Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias, and
> she also helped create Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject. She has served
> on several Foundation governance committees, including the Affiliations and
> Individual Engagement Grants committees. María is a professor in the
> Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of
> Rey Juan Carlos University at the MediaLab-Prado in Madrid, Spain. She has
> previously served on the Board from August 2013 to July 2015, and most
> recently joined the Board once again in January 2016. She has been selected
> for a second term which will conclude at Wikimania 2020.
>
> Dariusz Jemielniak has held a variety of roles on Wikimedia projects,
> including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward and ombudsman. He
> served as the chair of the Wikimedia community’s Funds Dissemination
> Committee for three terms and is the author of “Common knowledge?: An
> Ethnography of Wikipedia.” Dariusz is a full professor of Management, the
> head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces, and a
> co-founder of the New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group at
> Kozminski University. Dariusz has been re-appointed for a second term as a
> Trustee after first joining the Board in July 2015.
>
> James Heilman, M.D.,  has helped to found both Wikimedia Canada and
> WikiProject Med Foundation. As an emergency physician in Cranbrook, British
> Columbia, and a faculty member of emergency medicine at the University of
> British Columbia, James is an active member of the medical community on
> Wikimedia projects. James has also been involved in establishing
> collaborations with several organizations, including Translators Without
> Borders and the World Health Organization, to improve Wikimedia’s coverage
> of medical content. James previously served on the Board of Trustees from
> July to December 2015.
>
> Christophe Henner has been a leader within the Wikimedia community for more
> than 12 years. Prior to joining the Foundation Board in 2016, he served as
> Board Chair of Wikimedia France, and had been a member of the chapter’s
> Board since 2007. During this time, he spent nearly three years in Vice
> Chair and Chair positions. Christophe is currently the Chief Operating
> Officer (COO) of the Blade Group, a cloud computing company headquartered
> in France. At Blade, Christophe is scaling up operations to support the
> company's transition from a start-up to a global company.
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions

[Christophe Henner]

Hi everyone,

As is customary, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met right
before Wikimania and appointed new trustees and elected its officers.

This is a rare occasion as I will not need to write a farewell email. The
two Board members that were finishing their terms, María and Dariusz, were
re-elected after the recent community election. And as of today, James
Heilman has formally rejoined the Board of Trustees.

Today the Board also elected the officer positions. I am pleased to report
that the Board has reiterated its trust in the current officers, and both
María and I will continue serving as Vice Chair and Chair of the Board,
respectively, for another year.

It feels a little weird to write this email as there's not much change from
last year. But I believe that stability and continuity are more than
welcome!

So please, join me in "welcoming" María, Dariusz, and James as trustees of
the Wikimedia Foundation Board.

María Sefidari began contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006 and has
since served in several roles across the Wikimedia movement. She was a
founding member of Wikimedia España and Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias, and
she also helped create Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject. She has served
on several Foundation governance committees, including the Affiliations and
Individual Engagement Grants committees. María is a professor in the
Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of
Rey Juan Carlos University at the MediaLab-Prado in Madrid, Spain. She has
previously served on the Board from August 2013 to July 2015, and most
recently joined the Board once again in January 2016. She has been selected
for a second term which will conclude at Wikimania 2020.

Dariusz Jemielniak has held a variety of roles on Wikimedia projects,
including administrator, bureaucrat, checkuser, steward and ombudsman. He
served as the chair of the Wikimedia community’s Funds Dissemination
Committee for three terms and is the author of “Common knowledge?: An
Ethnography of Wikipedia.” Dariusz is a full professor of Management, the
head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces, and a
co-founder of the New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group at
Kozminski University. Dariusz has been re-appointed for a second term as a
Trustee after first joining the Board in July 2015.

James Heilman, M.D.,  has helped to found both Wikimedia Canada and
WikiProject Med Foundation. As an emergency physician in Cranbrook, British
Columbia, and a faculty member of emergency medicine at the University of
British Columbia, James is an active member of the medical community on
Wikimedia projects. James has also been involved in establishing
collaborations with several organizations, including Translators Without
Borders and the World Health Organization, to improve Wikimedia’s coverage
of medical content. James previously served on the Board of Trustees from
July to December 2015.

Christophe Henner has been a leader within the Wikimedia community for more
than 12 years. Prior to joining the Foundation Board in 2016, he served as
Board Chair of Wikimedia France, and had been a member of the chapter’s
Board since 2007. During this time, he spent nearly three years in Vice
Chair and Chair positions. Christophe is currently the Chief Operating
Officer (COO) of the Blade Group, a cloud computing company headquartered
in France. At Blade, Christophe is scaling up operations to support the
company's transition from a start-up to a global company.
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