Hello! Please find my answers inline.
What is the status of the Avisory Board?
There is no active Advisory Board at the moment, but the Board has approved inviting new members for the year. I have added a template to the page on Wikimedia Foundation site about it not being accurate at the moment. Thank you for noticing this.
Has it been reconstiuted, and if so, when, and who are its new members?
The Board has resolved to set up the Advisory Board during its meeting on June 16, 2017. The invitation letter will be sent tonight. As Dariusz mentioned already, the BGC discussion resulted in a proposal to the Board [2] to set up the Advisory Board on a lightweight structure (without budget and staff support at first), relying on the most active core of the former Advisory Board members, and a few individuals selected by the Board of Trustees based on the recommendation of the Governance Committee. So, basically it will consist of people mentioned here [3], but only those who took part in discussions about the AB role and strategy discussions and only after they accepted the invitation to join.
If it has not been reconstituted, what is the status of Florence's
record?
As far as I know, Florence has indeed worked with the former AB members as a group on their input to the Strategy process. Although the Advisory Board has not been active for a few years, we are still very thankful for their perspective.
If and when the Advisory Board is reconstituted, will input from the
Community for potential members be welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so, what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
That’s for the AB to work on and come up with a suggestion to the BGC/Board. The first task of the AB will be working on internal coordination, other questions may follow.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_2016-07-08#Advisory_Board
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017 [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Former_members
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Rogol Domedonfors domedonfors@gmail.com wrote:
This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia Foundation, and was required to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in 2015, so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This status is reflected at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding page at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously out of date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just about a year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for April published a couple of days ago at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_ Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017 show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No Board resoultion on the subject has yet been published.
Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/ 2017/Sources/WMF_Advisory_board recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the current movement strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of the BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in existence again.
What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and if so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been reconstituted, what is the status of Florence's record? If and when the Advisory Board is reconstituted, will input from the Community for potential members be welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so, what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
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