Patricio Lorente wrote:
When Denny informed the Board that he was stepping down, we began to consider how we would move forward. We recognize the importance of filling the two vacancies on the Board, and would like to proceed in a way that respects the will of the community and responds to existing Board needs. The Board will be meeting in Berlin during the Wikimedia Conference on April 22nd and 23rd - during this time we will discuss how we should fill the open community-nominated and appointed Trustee seats.
I look forward to sharing more information with you in late April.
April has now come and gone. Is there any new information about filling these two vacancies on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees?
In poking around to see if I had missed a post somewhere, I found this on-wiki reply by Patricio from May 4, 2016: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=15578608&oldid=15578561. The reply is vaguely related to the vacant seats; I imagine its contents will be of interest to this list.
MZMcBride
05.05.2016 12:11 AM "MZMcBride" z@mzmcbride.com napisał(a):
April has now come and gone. Is there any new information about filling these two vacancies on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees?
Regarding the expert seat, we have discussed our needs in Berlin, clarified a bit of previously unresolved issues and are moving forward. We are going to discuss the desired profiles within the BGC, and plan to move forward with an appointment later this year.
Regarding the community seat, I am in conversation with the Election Committee, which has narrowed it down to just a few options. We are going to finish this discussion soon and I expect the timeline to be announced before Wikimania.
Best,
Dariusz (a current trustee)
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Regarding the community seat, I am in conversation with the Election Committee, which has narrowed it down to just a few options. We are going to finish this discussion soon and I expect the timeline to be announced before Wikimania.
Are you considering reinstating James Heilman, as one of these options?
Den 2016-05-07 kl. 22:25, skrev Andreas Kolbe:
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Regarding the community seat, I am in conversation with the Election Committee, which has narrowed it down to just a few options. We are going to finish this discussion soon and I expect the timeline to be announced before Wikimania.
Are you considering reinstating James Heilman, as one of these options?
The Election Committee early on in these discussion came to favour an election to resolve the vacancy rather then by appointment.
But when it comes to an election we are not in full agreement if an election of one is the preferred option or an election of all three community seats (an early ordinary election). Also in the question of when, we find there is a lot a practical issues to take into consideration (when will the new standing election committee be fully in place? is it doable to have an election during summer months?, the timing of the actual appointment to the Board after the (s)election etc)
Anders
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