Thanks to James & Lisa for their service and good luck to the new appointees.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 19:45, Nataliia Tymkiv <ntym...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > The Board has appointed the three new community-selected trustees, so > please join me in welcoming Victoria Doronina [1], Lorenzo Losa, and Rosie > Stephenson-Goodknight to the Board of Trustees [2] [3] [4]. I would also > like to congratulate Dariusz Jemielniak on his re-appointment to the Board > [5]. Their terms will run from October 13, 2021 -- November 1, 2024. You > can read more about the new trustees in a blog post here [6]. > > > I thank all of those who participated in the most recent selection process > -- the candidates > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates#Candidate_Table>, > the election volunteers, the Elections Committee, Foundation staff and the > thousands of Wikimedians who voted. > > I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the trustees who are > rotating off the Board, James Heilman and Lisa Lewin. Serving on the > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is deeply fulfilling but it is also > challenging. I am appreciative of all of the work James and Lisa have done > over the years -- the late nights, the weekends, and countless emails and > calls. Thank you for your time and dedication. > > James, who has served for five years, has been Chair of the Special > Projects Committee, and under his lead, for example, the Onboarding plan > for Incoming Trustees was developed. He has also been a liaison to the > Language and the Affiliations Committees, and has served on other Board > committees such as the Audit, Board Governance, Product, and Community > Affairs. James’s term ended today, October 13, 2021. > > Lisa, who has been on the Board for three years, has been Chair of the > Board Governance Committee and has also served on the Human Resources > Committee. Lisa’s governance experience has helped to strengthen the > Board’s operating procedures and she has kept the board focused at the > strategic level, under her lead, for example, the board has started to > implement recommendations from the Governance Review [7]. Lisa’s term ends > November 1, 2021. > > On a personal note: getting off the Board also means having more free > time, and to fight the withdrawal symptoms of volunteering one’s time to > Wikimedia (even though mostly to governance work in practice as a trustee), > I cannot recommend enough to just embark on a journey of #100wikidays [8] > in a wikiproject -- it can definitely help! > > On a more serious note: many thanks to the Trustees -- incoming, > continuing, and outgoing -- for their work and commitment. > > Best regards, > antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > > [1] Due to some background checks still not being completed, Victoria’s > term officially will start in a few days. The Board resolution on > appointment will be effective as soon as the full background check is > complete and clean. But the end term will be the same for everyone. > > [2] > > > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Victoria_Doronina_to_the_Board_of_Trustees > > [3] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Lorenzo_Losa_to_the_Board_of_Trustees > > > [4] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Appointing_Rosie_Stephenson-Goodknight_to_the_Board_of_Trustees > > > [5] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Dariusz_Jemielniak%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021 > > > [6] > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-new-trustees-rosie-stephenson-goodknight-victoria-doronina-dariusz-jemielniak-and-lorenzo-losa/ > [7] > > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Board_Veritas_Governance_Recommendations_Final_Public_Copy.pdf > > > [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4DQFXDYGXNAZUNATDR262HYCAN7JHPN7/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Thanks, Samuel
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