Hello!
Thank you for the question, Lodewijk.
The Board Elections Committee kickoff meeting
is planned for January 31st, and I hope the discussion
about how the two processes can support each other
would be on the table as soon as the Committee will
determine its own timeline for the process.
Personally I would like us working together:
the BGC and the Board and the ED have identified some
expertise we lack, and the development of these three profiles
is the result from those discussions. A possible role of the
Elections Committee was discussed before, but the vision on
how exactly was not finalized, so it indeed ended up
not being possible at this point and with this timeline.
Ideally I would see us working on the whole picture:
what we need at all, and then filling the positions we need
through whatever selection processes there are.
If we couldn't find somebody with the expertise we needed
during the appointed seats search, we can continue looking for them
during the community selection, etc.
But for this to happen the timelines should not be so close.
Even though we have three profiles developed for two seats,
the profile we were unable to find via appointed seats search
will be known too late for the Elections Committee
to take it into consideration. The fourth profile
(discussed, but not prioritized for this appointed seats search)
was Technology Innovation. It would be nice to have it on the table
via the community selection process.
To be clear, as with all Trustee roles, this competency
is not someone who will get involved in the technical details
or day-to-day operations.
I think that a discussion involving the community about what more
the Board needs would be welcome before the selection process starts,
so we can concentrate on recruiting candidates with the competences
that we need to stand for election. But I do believe that it greatly
depends on how
the Committee will organize its work and the selection process.
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Hi Anna,
Thanks for the quote. I read that in the email as well - but it doesn't
answer the interaction between the two timelines though. It's mostly the
interaction between the two processes I'm interested in at this point.
The moment that the candidates join the board could be many months later
than when the decision has been made. This actually was suggested as a best
practice, if I recall correctly, for an effective transfer of knowledge to
the incoming board members before they take up their duties.
I hope the board took this interaction between processes into account while
planning, but I suspect it at least didn't end up being possible. But maybe
Nataliia sees other ways how the timelines can support each other. I hope
they are not being developed in vacuum.
Best regards,
Lodewijk
2017-01-24 19:09 GMT+01:00 Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Hello Lodewijk,
Good to hear from you.
In Nataliia's original email she wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees currently has two vacant
appointed seats. We also have a vacant community-selected seat, but this
seat will be filled through the community selection process. *The
Election*
*Committee, who runs the election process for
community-selected seats,
will*
*provide further information about the process and timeline at a later
date.*
We hope to have all three candidates join the Board no later than
Wikimania
in August.
Hope that helps.
Warmly,
/a
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
> Hi Nataliia,
>
> Thanks for the update. It's promising to see a closed timeline for the
> board recruitment.
>
> I am wondering though, when do you expect to wrap up the process for
the
> appointed seats? There's always been a
lot of talk that the community
and
affiliates don't take the needs of the board in certain areas into
account
- and it would probably be good if the board
could communicate back
before
> the election process starts what kind of expertise they're looking for.
>
> I guess that is not going to fly this time around, as you will be in
the
> middle of a search for the expert seats? Any
chance these timelines may
> support each other?
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> 2017-01-23 19:44 GMT+01:00 Nataliia Tymkiv <ntymkiv(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We would like to announce that we are officially beginning
recruitment
for
two open appointed positions on the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of
Trustees.
This email will outline the process and timeline
for the recruitment.
The Board initially began discussions on recruitment in May-June 2016
[1].
After a pause, the Board Governance Committee
(BGC) has renewed
recruitment
> for its vacant appointed seats and would love to share an update with
you
> > today.
> >
> > With support from Anna Stillwell (from the Talent & Culture
department)
> and
> > Michelle Paulson (our interim General Counsel), the BGC developed
four
> > candidate profiles for the vacant and
soon-to-be-vacant seats and
gave
its
> recommendations to the Board in December 2016.
>
> During its December meeting, the Board decided that it hopes to find
the
> > following types of experience and expertise:
> >
> >
> > 1.
> >
> > Growing a global movement: apply
> > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567318?gh_
> > src=3vh7tx1#.WIZGvrYrL-Y>
> > [2]
> > 2.
> >
> > Engaging new communities: apply
> > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567342?gh_
> > src=b1ftgs1#.WIZL_FyzlP1>
> > [3]
> > 3.
> >
> > Social sector governance: apply
> > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567375?gh_
> > src=5gwopi1#.WIZMoFyzlP1>
> > [4]
> >
> >
> > After that Anna, Michelle, and the Communications team integrated
Board
> > feedback and developed recruitment
materials, which include
background
> > information about the Wikimedia
movement and Foundation as well as
the
>
profiles describing the types of candidates we are looking for. These
> recruitment materials can be found at:
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=55283092 [5].
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees currently has two vacant
> appointed seats. We also have a vacant community-selected seat, but
this
> seat will be filled through the community
selection process. The
Election
> > Committee, who runs the election process for community-selected
seats,
> will
> > provide further information about the process and timeline at a later
> date.
> > We hope to have all three candidates join the Board no later than
> Wikimania
> > in August.
> >
> > We will begin accepting applications and referrals for these
positions
> > today and will close the submission
period on Monday, 06 March 2017
at
> > 17:00 PST. A more detailed timeline of
the full recruitment process
is
[6].
We
> > also accept applications and referrals by email at
> > board-nominations(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
> >
> > Over the next six weeks, we invite you all to tell us about people
who
> are
> > potentially interested in serving the Wikimedia community on the
> Wikimedia
> > Foundation Board of Trustees. And we look forward to hearing from
you.
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