Hello All -
My name is Kelly Bodnar Battles and I am honored to have joined the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in January of this year.
Professionally, I am a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and a material part
of my near term Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board responsibilities will be
to chair the Audit Committee. Currently, the voting members of the Audit
Committee are myself, Alice Wiegand, María Sefidari and Denny Vrandečić.
WMF’s CFO and Treasurer Jaime Villagomez is also an important stakeholder
on this committee as well.
As you may know, we have the precedent of having non-voting members (please
see role definition below) from outside the board participate in the Audit
Committee as well. Toward that end, I would like to:
- First and foremost, thank Matt Bisanz, Michael Snow, Abhijith
Jayanthi, Ben Creasy and Florian Gerl for participating in this committee
as non-voting members in the recent past.
- Request that if you are interested (or know of other volunteers in
the community who may be interested) in serving in this capacity for this
next cycle (from selection through June 2017), please send to me at this
email address (kbattles(a)wikimedia.org) your resume, the top 3 reasons why
you want to do this and the top 3 things you will add to the Audit
Committee.
- Propose the following steps and timeline for the selection process:
- Candidates submit their interest and the above information to me
no later than April 15
- The Audit Committee will interview top 4 candidates by May 10
- The Audit Committee will select the top 2 candidate by May 15
- Selected candidates join the Audit committee by June 1 and attend
July Audit Committee meeting
- Outline the following important preferences for candidates
interested in this role:
- 5+ years of operational finance and or accounting experience
- Solid understanding of the mission and operations of WMF
- Prior executive or board experience
- CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or MBA (Masters in Business
Administration), or equivalent earned
- Capacity to commit an estimated 20-30 hours annually to attend
both quarterly and other ad-hoc meetings, prepare or review required
materials, and interact with committee, staff and/or board as required.
Once again, I am thrilled to be part of this amazing organization. Thank
you for the warm welcome I have received so far.
Best,
Kelly
See link for Audit Committee charter
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter
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Dear all,
Last week, we have published our Impact Report for the year 2015, and I
would like to draw your attention to some of the learnings and experiences
we shared in this comprehensive document. We consider these APG reports as
an essential channel for the movement’s international communication and
cooperation; they underline our intention of being a learning partner for
the movement.
I invite you to read the report if
* you would like to learn how a multi-stakeholder approach can lead to
policy change in the EU;[1]
* you are curious about our new “attribution generator” which generates
attribution text based on the original Creative Commons license and the
intended use, for anyone planning to reuse image files from Commons and
Wikipedia; [2, 3]
* you would like to find out how Wikidata is playing an increasing role in
Wikipedia improving its quality;[4]
* you are interested in hearing about how we plan to spread the gospel
about Open Science;[5]
* you wanna know more about the concept of supporting volunteers locally so
that they can connect and leverage with partners, networks and
institutions;[6]
* you wonder how we paved the way for a widespread use of Open Educational
Resources in all educational arenas[7] or if
* our plan to create a productive and sustainable conference series that
focuses on working, thinking, and learning together sounds exemplary to
you.[8]
We have also included links to 40 learning patterns, tutorials, talks,
reports, and policy or scientific papers we created throughout 2015 and we
consider a fruitful read.[9]
If you have questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to get in touch,
either directly or via the talk pages. If you are not sure whom to best
reach out to, contact me and I will connect you with my colleagues.
Happy reading!
Nicole
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[3] https://www.lizenzhinweisgenerator.de/
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
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Nicole Ebber
Referentin Internationale Beziehungen
Adviser to the ED, International Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 21915826-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.