Hello Krishna, Thanks for letting us know. We have been monitoring this development and will provide our thoughts accordingly.
Regards, [image: Wikimedia Bangladesh] Shabab Mustafa President Wikimedia Bangladesh email: sha...@wikimedia.org.bd meta: User:Tarunno skype: shabab.mustafa On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 21:02, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga < kcvelaga-...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians of Bangladesh, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has discussed and approved some > improvements to the Board’s governance structure and processes, in two > recent meetings on December 9 and January 8. As the governing body for > Wikimedia Foundation, we want to improve our capacity, performance, and > representation of the movement’s diversity. We have amended the Bylaws in > support of that goal. > > The new Bylaws incorporate these main changes: > > - *Increase of the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10).* > The trustee role is volunteer, unpaid. The Board thinks that more trustees > are needed to adequately cover the many areas of expertise required to > steer the Wikimedia Foundation, a +450 staff organization supporting an > international movement formed by hundreds of projects and communities. > - *Combining community- and affiliate-selected trustees into one > category.* Rather than a specified number of community-selected and a > specified number of affiliate-selected seats, the Board has determined that > 8 seats on the 16-seat Board shall be “community-and-affiliate-selected” > seats. These processes are not defined in the Bylaws, and we will discuss > them separately. The Board appoints up to seven seats directly. The status > of Jimmy Wales as Community Founder Trustee remains unchanged. We have not > used the term “community-sourced” that we initially proposed and instead > now call these “communty-and-affiliate-selected” seats. > - *Maintaining a balance between community/affiliate-selected seats > and Board-selected seats.* The Board has added a safeguard to ensure > that a Board-appointed seat cannot be added if it would mean outnumbering > the community-and-affiliate-selected” seats. The Board is committed to > ensuring strong community representation. > > Other changes refer to the terms and renewals of trustees, the resignation > of other staff and governance roles before joining the Board, and the > creation of an optional second Vice-Chair role. We have clarified the > Bylaws language in topics like the fiduciary duty of trustees, the CEO’s > role in meetings, the Treasurer’s duties, and the wording around the legal > requirement that the Board make final appointments to the Board - including > where there is a community/affiliate process to nominate candidates. > > The Bylaws page on Foundation Wiki > <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws>[1] has been updated to > include these revisions (check the diff). > > The Trustee Evaluation Form > <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Approving_Trustee_Evaluation_Form>[2] > to aid in evaluating Board candidates, initially presented as “Candidate > rubric”, has been approved by the Board. > > We are organizing a multilingual call for feedback > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats>[3] > to discuss the processes to select trustees from the community. The Board > will put forward a series of options for consideration and discussion, each > one intended to meet the goal of strong community processes to select > representatives, and a goal of improved skills, qualifications, and > diversity in the candidates that are ultimately appointed. This call will > start on February 1 and will run until March 14. The Foundation is > preparing a team of facilitators to ensure broad awareness, participation, > and representation across the movement. > > The results of this call for feedback will inform the Board's decision > about these processes expected to come in March-April. The Board will meet > to review and approve a final selection pathway. After the pathway is > approved, we plan to start the process to renew the three overdue community > trustee seats and appoint the three new ones. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. I will be facilitating the > conversations related to this in the South Asian region during the call > feedback. > > Regards, > Krishna Chaitanya > Board Governance Facilitator > Wikimedia Foundation > > [1] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws > [2] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Approving_Trustee_Evaluation_Form > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Community_Board_seats > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-BD mailing list > Wikimedia-BD@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd >
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