[Wikimedia-l] Board appointments July 2012

[Alice Wiegand]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Arne Klempert <klempert.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I am sure Bishakha will give a more thorough answer if I am mistaken, but
>> from what I heard from Board members when I asked the same question: the
>> new board members fully participated in the meeting on the 11 July, but for
>> technical reasons and simplicity's sake, they only assumed the positions of
>> the outgoing board members at the very end of the meeting.
>
> That's correct. The transition took place at the end of the meeting on
> July 11th. We didn't want to leave a legacy of too much unfinished
> business (some resolutions had a history that started long before the
> new board members were selected), while allowing Alice and Patricio to
> get used to their new roles.

And it was organized in this manner with our full agreement. We were
involved in every discussion which made it very easy to feel like an
equivalent part of this body quite fast.

Alice.