As you say, the WMF and a few chapters do have such an induction process already. Perhaps we can coordinate those existing processes with whatever is developed for the rest of the affiliates. For instance, there might be a few of these workshops each year; at least one of them at Wikimania. The WMF could co-sponsor the Wikimania workshop, since at that meeting we usually induct some new Trustees (including any new elected or chapter-selected Trustees). There should also be in-depth training available for those who want to learn about specific tasks of boards, which at least one Trustee should be familiar with: financial oversight; legal oversight; recruiting and evaluating an ED; strategy development. It may be more cost-effective for us to invite some experts to come and give a dozen workshops over the 3 days of Wikimania than to send dozens of individual Trustees to such workshops around the world. @Rodrigo - yes, materials developed for such workshops should be shared publicly, translated, available to all. And yes, some topics will be different in different countries - not only based on whether they are in Europe, but also based on the national laws in their jurisdiction. But I think shared training is still a good idea. Regards, SJ On Apr 21, 2013 4:20 AM, "Fae" <fae(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: