Hello all, The first meeting will begin in about 20 minutes.
Join at https://meet.google.com/rgb-otde-jkh On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:21 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, sent the wrong sign-up link in the previous email. > > The correct link is: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats/Conversations/Wikidata > > 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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