Hi there, North Carolina Wikipedians!
As recently announced, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community-and-affiliated seat selection processes between February 1 and March 14. You can find all the information on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boar...
I wanted to reach out personally to connect with you. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages. I am the community facilitator for English language communities and Meta discussions about the Board Governance updates.
During this call for feedback we will publish weekly reports and we will draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.
We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others.
*How to participate* You can choose your preferred language and way of participation. A team of facilitators is watching multiple channels and capturing the outcome of conversations in weekly reports (see below).
- Discuss in the Talk page for each idea, or in this Talk page [1] for general comments. Translated pages welcome discussions in their respective languages. - Discuss in the WM Board Governance Telegram [2] group created for this call for feedback. - Join a conversation or an online meeting near you. We are organizing multiple conversations on wiki projects, with affiliates, and other groups.
If there are no conversations or meetings organized for your project or your affiliate, contact us here, on Telegram, or via email at community-board-seats-cff@wikimedia.org. A facilitator will contact you to organize one.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if there is anything you suggest to better help me connect and gather feedback from your community. Thanks for taking the time to participate in this process.
Best,
Jackie