Hello all,
The first meeting will start in three hours from now, at 4:00 pm UTC.
For the community's seats on WMF's Board, here are a few questions that we
can discuss during the meeting;
- How would this regional quota be defined? How would it affect the
community voting processes expected this year?
- What if… the Board would specify a set of skills wanted in community
candidates selected this year?
- How could the current practices be changed to promote the nomination
and selection of candidates with fitting skills and community support? What
role should the Trustee Evaluation Form play?
- What if the Board would rely on a community-led vetting process?
- Board - Global Council - Hubs:
- How could the different s/election processes of these bodies be
organized?
- How would it be possible to reach out to potential candidates,
getting apt volunteers for each body, without confusing or exhausting
everyone?
The meeting link is https://meet.google.com/svk-fvyn-wkj
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
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 25, 4:00 pm UTC[2]
> Round 2 - Mar 4, 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/1614268826
> [3] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1614830440
>
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