[Wikimedia-l] Proposal - Training for Wikimedia movement boards

[Anthony Cole]

I've left some notes on the meta talk
page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Boards_training_workshop_proposal#Boardsource>about
a US nonprofit called Boardsource that specialises in educating
nonprofit boards on just the issues you raise, Chris. Though it is US
centred, most of the knowledge and advice has universal applicability.

You point out an important gap in our governance - the education of our
boards in best practice. But I'm not (yet) convinced by anything on the
meta project page or any of the above comments that an in-person training
is the only or even best solution to that.

Another option (if you want assessment and certification to be a part of
the process) would be to commission Boardsource or a similar specialist
organisation to create an online module tailored to this project's needs.
That would have the advantage of not requiring participants to take several
days out of their lives for the course, open the course up to many more
participants, including those who can't take that time off from work and,
if a good package is negotiated, should be vastly cheaper per head than an
in-person course.

If independent assessment and certification is dispensed with, this gap in
knowledge *may* be able to be filled simply by judicious private reading.
Boardsource (and I assume other specialist organisations) produce a range
of books aimed directly at the very questions you cover in your description
of the problem.

Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
Memberships secretary
Wiki Project Med Foundation<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Markus Glaser
<markus.glaser at wikimedia.de>wrote:

>
> Am 14.08.2013 14:44, schrieb Tanweer Morshed:
>
>  Seems good initiative! I'd like to know, who will be training the people
>> from chapters?? It'll be more efficient if someone who specializes in
>> management of non-profit organization can do this job.
>>
> We were thinking about having more than one trainer and a set of
> subsequent sessions focussing on different topics. Definitely, I think
> there should be some external expert among them. But I'd also hope for
> someone with a deep insight in the movement to be present at the workshop.
> This person, naturally, should be someone internal.
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus Glaser
> WCA Council Member (WMDE), Chair
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
>
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