[Wikimedia-l] Your support is wanted: The WMF Board of Trustees is looking for a new Board member

[Mathieu Stumpf]

Le 2013-02-18 00:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
> There's only a passage about «willingness to
> learn from and engage with the community» which despite the word
> "engage" is made into a passive light by «deeply understand their
> interests and concerns».
> This is not what we need from a trustee, in my opinion. What we need
> is trustees able to:
> 1) *solicit* an ealthy discussion,
> 2) *involve* more people in the WMF work and priorities and in the
> discussions about them,
> 3) make the board stronger and more credible so that its not just a
> "vox clamantis in deserto" whose resolutions have no effect on 
> reality
> (see Openness, probably also BLP... with all due respect and without
> repeating discussions we've had also in person) or are only 
> monstruous
> wastes of time/resources for Wikimedia (see image filter [1]);

On the one hand, I find this comments relevant, as I have no idea what 
trustees are doing/supposed to do, not that information is really 
hidden, but not brang forward. On the other hand, not having bureaucracy 
clutering the wikimedia projects end user experience seems a good point.

> 4) to *revolutionize* (if needed) a body so *sclerotic* that even
> when we have elections discussions are deadly empty and boring,[2] we
> have 99.5 % abstention,[3] nobody asks or reads questions.[4]
>
> HTH,
> Nemo