Hi Rogol,
The weird thing in this discussion is I kind of agree with everyone.
Yes more diversity would be awesome. But in my opinion diversity should be
something we achieve organicaly.
So, from my biased perspective, the key issue is for us to build room for
people to emerge but also to feel entitled to run for those position.
To also build ways to train people, to "groom" them and their potential.
And we know that in our movement we have the smart people we will need in
the coming years. It's up to us to help them emerge and take our seats.
I gebuinely haven't a solution ready to work out of the box and there are
people in our movement way more expert in those topics than me.
And that might be something that could be adress during the strategy
process. And the only way we will be able to tackle it properly is if first
we can include everyone in our movement in the process, not just the "usual
suspects".
Le 6 sept. 2016 8:46 AM, "Anders Wennersten" <mail(a)anderswennersten.se> a
écrit :
I am very happy how this nowadays works out.
We have now a lot of chapters, each with a Board. And here the members are
not oldtimers and here is the appropriate first place to get into the
Wikmedia world.
And there are many bodies who you can then turn to to get further into the
Wikimedia world, like Affcom or being a member of Simple Annual Plan
Grants Committee or other grant committees. Also here more or less
newcomers are welcome.
But for the core bodies like the Board, FDC or the BGC supporting
committee, I am very pleased to see that we get a lot of people with long
Wikimedia experience. And as they are frequently replaced, I see no problem
and only advantages
Anders
Den 2016-09-06 kl. 08:33, skrev Rogol Domedonfors:
I think Pine's message rather illustrates my
point. Pine seems to assume
that the alternative is between people experienced in the WMF ways of
doing
things and novices. Actually, there are plenty of people in the world
with
experience in being trustees of non-proft organisations, and technical
expertise, and experience of knowledge representation and dissemination,
and the robustness to hold senior employees to account, who are not
closely
connected with the WMF or its affiliates. They mainly live a long way
from
Silicon Valley, too.
For the avoidance of doubt, I have never been a candidate for, let alone
held, any position, paid or voluntary, in or related to the WMF or any
associated organisation.
"Rogol"
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