Dear colleagues from France, dear all,
thank you for keeping us posted, Florence and Envel.
We, some chairpersons of neighbouring partner Wikimedia-organisations, want to express to everybody related to Wikimédia France, that - in whatever shape the organisation is and how long it might take for you to find a way to reach out - we will be there to support the organisational development if you want us to. We are ready to share our insights and learnings from our own organisations, which have crossed troubling waters as well, to ensure that Wikimédia France becomes a stable organisation again. We think, the results of the General Assembly are a very good first step.
We are all dedicated to our mission - a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. As a movement and together with partners from likeminded organisations and individuals around the world we will be stronger in doing our best to reach it.
Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector (WMDE) Frans Grijzenhout (WMNL) Matias Blomgren (WMSE) Josie Fraser (WMUK) Santiago Navarro (WMES)
2017-09-13 11:02 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout frans@wikimedia.nl:
Hi Florence, thank you for keeping the international community up to date. I am glad to hear that the AG was successful. Frans
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2017-09-12 22:29 GMT+02:00 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
Thank you to Florence for the update and links. Thanks also for the
public
WMF report; and to the many members helping with the transformation.
//SJ
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
I thought the electoral commission would forward the results but over
24h
hours after the GA closed... apparently not.
So very brief summary:
Saturday, Wikimedia France held a full day General Assembly.
The agenda was here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik i/Wikimédia_France/Assemblée_générale/septembre_2017
Results of votes are available there : https://upload.wikimedia.org/w ikipedia/commons/0/04/WMFR_AG_2017-09-09.pdf
Key points
- Emeric (chairman until end of June) resigned the day prior to the
General Assembly
- the remaining board (5 people) was constituted of Samuel (Chair),
Marie-Alice (Vice Chair), FloFlo (treasurer), Edouard and Florence
Raymond
(not me...)
- Raymond, who was an appointed board member, was confirmed by the
General
Assembly
- the General Assembly voted by 73% the "lack of trust" in the previous
board
- however, the General Assembly voted to retain the remainer of the
previous board despite the distrust, in order to allow transfer of information and to support the new board during the audit.
- Floflo and Edouard will finish their term in 6 weeks (may resign
earlier). Samuel and Marie-Alice indicated they would resign at the earliest convenience, only staying to help the transition and the audit
- 6 new people were elected on the board. 4 for slightly more than a
year,
2 for a duration of 6 weeks. All of those are experienced members, including former board members and former president (I suppose presentations will follow next week)
- the chapter mailing list is reopened
- the members whose new memberships or renewal had been rejected will
be
invited to re-apply
- the prior vote passed in July to expell members will be cancelled
- the GA also voted to support the adoption of a non-discrimination
policy, for a complete revamping of the conflict of interest committee,
and
for a financial audit to be done.
Sides notes
Next General Assembly will take place around 20th of October and will
be
the opportunity to elect new board members to fill the remaining seats. Except for the appointed board member, it is likely the board will be entirely renewed in the next few weeks (compared to this last summer
one).
Also, WMF published two documents to guide the next few months
WMFr site visit report - septembre 2017 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMFr_site_visit_report_-_sep
tembre_2017
Grant expectations for Wikimedia France - 2017-2018 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_expectations_for_Wikim edia_France_-_2017-2018
I wish the best to the new board. They have a lot of work to do to
rebuild
the complete mess left by the previous management. Please, help them as much as you can.
Florence
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