Congratulations to NickK and others. Regards,
Isaac On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 8:30 PM Голова Правління <ch...@wikimedia.org.ua wrote: > Hello! > > Wikimedia Ukraine had its General Assembly on February 16, 2019 and we have > elected new Board and Audit Committee [1]. We have been working on changes > in our organisation for quite a while now with the help of Wikimedia > Foundation grantmaking staff: > > 1) for a while we have had our General Assembly (GA) at the end of the > calendar and financial year, which was an issue for us, as we (according to > the Bylaws) can have a 100% new Board elected by the membership, and that > means, that we need to finish all our financial transactions before the GA > in case a new Board Chair and Secretary are elected (they are the ones who > have the access to the bank account), so last year we have decided to have > a GA at the end of a year (December) and the next one in February, to > switch to a cycle starting February-February, rather than > December-December. This is now done. > 2) we have finally started working on a Board handbook [2], documenting our > processes as we go, trying to get it all in a system. This document is a > direct outcome from the Affiliate Chairpersons meeting in Prague [3] [4], > and we are very grateful that Tim Moritz and Frans Grijzenhout continue > dedicating their time to sharing knowledge in the Movement. > 3) we had our first Strategy session on February 15 (before the GA) and are > planning to have a two-day strategy session in June. > 4) we are planning to have our first ever training on teambuilding and > onboarding for Board members, Audit Committee members and staff on March > 24-25, 2019. Onboarding and capacity building are our priorities as of now. > This complements community-wide trainings we've had this past year during > our national Wikiconference and the CEE Meeting, which we hosted this year > in Lviv [5]. > > That said, the new Board consists of: > * [[User:Ilya]], Illia Korniiko. I have been Chair since December 2015. > Re-elected. > * [[User:JTs]], Yulianna Tsaruk. She is First Deputy Chair and Secretary of > the Board. Re-elected. > * [[User:NickK]], Mykola Kozlenko. He is Deputy Chair and Treasurer since > 2016. Re-elected. > * [[User:Наталія Ластовець]], Nataliia Lastovets. She is responsible for > our program "Content Enrichment" [6], which includes editing challenges and > contests, photography contests and GLAM. She has joined our organisation in > July 2018. She was also a member of the Audit Committee for two months. It > is her first term serving on the Board. > * [[User:IgorTurzh]], Igor Turzhanskyy. He is responsible for our program > "Increasing Participation", which includes Wikipedia in Education. He is a > long-term Wikipedian but he has joined our organisation only in November > 2018. It is his first term serving on the Board. > * [[User:Friend]], Pavlo Sokhan. He is responsible for our program > "Community Support and Development", which includes community events, > trainings for volunteers, scholarships and microgrants. Re-elected. > * [[User:Олександр Гаврик]], Oleksandr Havryk. He is responsible for our > program "Awareness for Wikimedia and Free Knowledge", which is concentrated > on media publicity and promotion activities and free panorama advocacy. He > has joined our organisation only in October 2018. It is his first term > serving on the Board. > > I want to thank the three Board members who stepped down: Yuri Bulka / > [[User:Юрій Булка]], Olha Nesterenko / [[User:Нестеренко Оля]] and Andrii > Hrytsenko / [[User:Андрій Гриценко]]. Being a board member means taking > upon oneself more boring responsibilities, so their work and dedication is > much > appreciated. > > Our new Audit Committee: > * [[User:Venzz]], Viacheslav Mamon > * [[User:Tohaomg]], Anton Obozhyn > * [[User:Anntinomy]], Anna Khrobolova. She was our project manager for a > few years, but she has decided to stay with us in her volunteer role. > > Anatolii Honcharov / [[User:Ahonc]] and Serhii Petrov / [[User:Kharkivian]] > have stepped down from the Audit committee and we are grateful for their > work while there. > > [1] Керівні органи: https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=313 (in > Ukrainian) > [2] Посібник для членів Правління: > https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6085 (in Ukrainian) > [3] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting November 24 - 25, 2018: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_November_24_-_25,_2018 > [4] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting (Prague 2018): > https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_(Prague_2018) > (in Ukrainian) > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018/Schedule > [6] Wikimedia Ukraine has 4 programs, and we have decided that every Board > member (except for Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) will be responsible for > one of them: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_Ukraine/2019 > > Best regards, > Illia Korniiko > Chair of the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine > ua.wikimedia.org > > Уявіть світ, у якому кожна людина на планеті має вільний доступ до усіх > знань людства. Це те, що ми й робимо! / Imagine a world in which every > single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human > knowledge. That's what we're doing! > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
