Hi everyone,
First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year.
Even if the first days of 2015 were tainted by violence, we also witnessed people shouting how freedom is important. I hope 2015 will be at the image of the latter.
Now, to the announcement.
As you might know, Wikimedia France is working hard at improving its governance. A gap we identified month ago was that we lacked external point of views regarding our activities.
In order to fix that, we created a scientific committee. This committee is a test, it doesn't exist in our bylaws. So, in 2015, we're trying this out to see if it can help us better do our work.
This first committee is chaired by Rémi Mathis, my awesome and wonderful predecessor. It has 8 members, including Rémi :
- *Dominique Cardon*, sociologist at Orange Labs laboratory and associate professor at Marne-la-Vallée university ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Cardon) - *Camille François*, Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society - *Laurent Le Bon*, Chief curator, director of Picasso-Paris national musuem (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Le_Bon) - *Frédéric Martel*, journalist, writer and producer at France Culture (French public radio) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Martel) - *Rémi Mathis*, former Wikimédia France chair, historian, curator ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Mathis) - *Louise Merzeau*, associate professor at Paris Ouest university in information sciences (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Merzeau) - *Henri Verdier*, Etalab director , Chief Data Officer for France ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Verdier) - *Cédric Villani*, mathématician, Fields Medalist ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani)
Those 8 persons will meet for the first time this week to better understand what Wikimedia is. For the coming year, we will ask their inputs and opinions on what we're doing and planning to do for free knowledge.
As said earlier, this is a test. We will try to share as much as we can our feedback on how it goes and if it's useful for Wikimedia France.
The announcement in french is available on our blog : http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikimedia-france-cree-son-conseil-scientifique-7059
If you have any question feel free to ask here or to Rémi and I off-list.
All the best,
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