Dear fellow Wikimedians,

On Saturday, May 14th, Wikimedia Deutschland held its 27th General Assembly in Berlin, the second in a hybrid format.

Our members elected a new Supervisory Board, which consists of 7 elected members:

* Alice Wiegand (chair, re-elected, former deputy chair) * Daniel Reisener (treasurer, re-elected) * Nora Circosta * Christina Dinar (re-elected) * Jens Ohlig * Valerie Mocker (re-elected) * Kamran Salimi

Nora Circosa, Jens Ohlig and Kamran Salimi are new to the board, so please join mein welcoming them!

I would like to wholeheartedly thank our departing chair Lukas Mezger and board members Sabria David und Kilian Kluge for the outstanding work and their commitment to Wikimedia over the past years.

Renate Duerr and Lenia Zinßer were elected as auditors. My gratitude to our departing auditor Sabine Zepp.

The General Assembly voted to change our bylaws to introduce term limits for the chair and the treasurer as well as to legally secure the operation and decision making for two or more Executive directors. Our members also approved changes in our travel expense policy, which is now better aligned with the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant.[1] And the general assembly approved changes to our strategy and formally approved of the board's actions for the 2 year term and of the Executive Director's actions for 2021.

Another highlight of the day was the presentation, discussion, and adoption of Wikimedia Deutschland’s new set of values[2] with diversity, equity, free and open access, participation, respectful collaboration and sustainability being our six core values. It is based on values that have been lived in the association for years, as well as the latest developments in the Movement Strategy of the global Wikimedia Movement. As an association, we are guided by these values in our cooperation with the Wikimedia movement, communities, partners and interested parties. By living these values in its daily work, Wikimedia Deutschland promotes human rights in a digital world. All those who share these values are welcome in our association.

The new board will reconvene shortly to get started and I am very much looking forward to working together with the new team.

Kind regards, Alice

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainab... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant [2] https://www.wikimedia.de/en/our-values/ https://www.wikimedia.de/en/our-values/

Alice Wiegand Vorsitzende des Präsidiums | Chair of the Supervisory Board

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