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On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:20 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for > feedback[1] about community selection processes between February 1 and > March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about > five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have > remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a > problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the > movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer > and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor > candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how > relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, > or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific > responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored > volunteers from North America and Western Europe. In the upcoming months, > we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community > members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes > can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that > represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and > insight to perform as trustees? > > In this regard, two rounds of feedback meetings are being hosted to > collect feedback from the technical communities in Wikimedia. Two rounds > are being hosted with the same agenda, to accomodate people from various > time zones across the globe. We will be discussing ideas proposed by the > Board and the community to address the above mentioned problems. Please > sign-up according to whatever is most comfortable to you. You are welcome > to participate in both as well! > > Round 1 - Feb 24, 4:00 pm UTC[2] > Round 2 - Mar 3, 4:00 am UTC[3] > Sign-up and meeting details: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/MediaWiki_and_Wikitech > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Best, > Krishna Chaitanya > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats > [2] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1614182448 > [3] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1614744041 >
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