On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
- Does your discussion on Monday include the Code of Conduct and
Confidentiality Agreement mentioned in the March minutes?
Actually, we have discussed and voted on them in April (minutes are in the process of being approved).
- Have you considered inviting community comment on these before finally
adopting them?
We felt the need to make some amendments soon, but they are not written in stone - I anticipate that, depending on needs, we may enter a process of reviewing them in a wider process.
- A number of community members have mentioned the idea of a formal review
of WMF governance. In my experience these can be quite helpful* - has the WMF board considered this option?
We have not discussed this yet, but I will bring this proposal up at Wikimania latest. Every organization occasionally can make good use of governance review and consultation. It would be important to choose a good advising organization (experienced in NGOs, as well as optimally in large social movements and open source organizations). Speaking just for myself and expressing my own opinion only, I think that the Board is quite open to improvements, and the time for external suggestions is usally best exactly after the body itself has done as much as it could on their own.
best,
dariusz