Hello! Please find my answers inline.
> What is the status of the Avisory Board?
There is no active Advisory Board at the moment, but the Board has approved
inviting new members for the year. I have added a template to the page on
Wikimedia Foundation site about it not being accurate at the moment. Thank
you for noticing this.
> Has it been reconstiuted, and if so, when, and who
are its new members?
The Board has resolved to set up the Advisory Board during its meeting on
June 16, 2017. The invitation letter will be sent tonight. As Dariusz
mentioned already, the BGC discussion resulted in a proposal to the Board
[2] to set up the Advisory Board on a lightweight structure (without budget
and staff support at first), relying on the most active core of the former
Advisory Board members, and a few individuals selected by the Board of
Trustees based on the recommendation of the Governance Committee. So,
basically it will consist of people mentioned here [3], but only those who
took part in discussions about the AB role and strategy discussions and
only after they accepted the invitation to join.
> If it has not been reconstituted, what is the
status of Florence's
record?
As far as I know, Florence has indeed worked with the former AB members as
a group on their input to the Strategy process. Although the Advisory
Board has not been active for a few years, we are still very thankful for
their perspective.
> If and when the Advisory Board is reconstituted,
will input from the
Community for potential members be welcome, and if so how will
it be
gathered? Once the Board is in operation again, is it expected that it will
interact with the Community, and if so, what will the mechanism be for
that interaction.
That’s for the AB to work on and come up with a suggestion to the
BGC/Board. The first task of the AB will be working on internal
coordination, other questions may follow.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_2016-07-08#Advisory_Board
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017
[3]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Former_members
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antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia
Foundation, and was
required to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in 2015,
so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This status is reflected at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding page
at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously out of
date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just about a
year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to
revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for
April published a couple of days ago at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_
Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017
show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the
subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No Board
resoultion on the subject has yet been published.
Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/
2017/Sources/WMF_Advisory_board
recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the current
movement strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of the
BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in existence
again.
What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and if
so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been reconstituted,
what is the status of Florence's record? If and when the Advisory Board is
reconstituted, will input from the Community for potential members be
welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation
again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so,
what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
"Rogol"
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