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The first office hours during the Call for Feedback: Community Board seats took place at 3 different times on February 2, 2021 using Google Meet. The office hours lasted nearly 90 minutes each. The first hour of each office hour session was recorded. Additional resources to accompany this summary include videos, transcriptions, chat logs, and notes taken by the facilitator team.

There were 99 total attendees with a majority from Europe and North America.

Summary

This is a summary of the first office hours during the Call for Feedback: Community Board seats taking place from February 1 to March 14. The office hours took place at 3 different times on February 2, 2021 using Google Meet. The office hours lasted nearly 90 minutes each. The first hour of each office hour session was recorded. Additional resources to accompany this summary include videos, transcriptions, chat logs, and notes taken by the Board Governance facilitator team.

There were 99 total attendees with a majority from Europe and North America. There were members of the Board of Trustees in attendance during the first 2 sessions. The trustee planning to attend the final session was unable to attend.

Themes

This is a summary of the themes that were covered during the office hours sessions. Specific ideas were not discussed in depth. The conversation largely focused on the following themes:

Theme 1: Diversity

  • Isn’t diversity fine just as it is?
  • Diversity is being defined by larger groups
  • Quotas sound encouraging for regions
  • Suggestion of regional board seats

Theme 2: Communication

  • Need for better communication about the Board opportunities
    • Especially better communication to small or underrepresented communities
    • Translations are important for diversity
  • Need for better communication about what the Board does
    • Community members suggested receiving Board updates from a Board member is preferred over receiving them from WMF staff
  • Community members noted appreciation of the communication support from the WMF staff for this Call for Feedback
  • Need to balance and respect time demand on volunteers to participate in discussions
    • Appreciate time and capacity needs as they apply to diversity
    • Concerns that there are too many meetings
    • Feeling of exhaustion among volunteers participating in movement conversations

Theme 3: Skills

  • Suggestions about having training opportunities for Board members and other leadership within wikimedia communities
  • Outreach and informative sessions to encourage people to seek leadership positions
  • Can’t the Board address the problem of skills with the directly appointed trustees?
    • Community seats should be for representing the community, and the aspect of skills is secondary
  • Grow Board members from the communities by embracing skills that are not only typical of larger communities

Theme 4: Maintaining current practices

  • Some do not understand why current practices are not acceptable
    • This is related to the idea that the current diversity of the Board is ok, and also the skills provided by the community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
  • Elections
    • Some feel direct elections are the appropriate practice
    • Some feel the community should decide the trustee selection processes
    • Some feel the Board should organize the due elections before discussing changes in the processes

Miscellaneous questions

  • What are the safeguards to prevent the Board of Trustees from turning into an advisory board (like the UN)?
  • Some communities have more participation or more groups. How can we create diversity and prevent unfair influence?
  • How do we create a situation where candidates from larger communities do not overshadow candidates from small or underrepresented communities?

Thank you for reviewing this summary of the first office hours. Please connect with a facilitator to plan a conversation for your project or affiliate. Share on the Call for Feedback talk page if there are any corrections to this report. The Board Governance facilitators apologize in advance for any misgendering that may have happened during the note-taking process.

Meeting reports

Every report includes video, notes, transcript, and chat.

L'équipe de facilitation de l'appel à commentaires vous invite à notre première permanence. Trois réunions pour couvrir les différents fuseaux horaires:

  1. 02-02-2021 à 12:00 UTC - Terminée
  2. 02-02-2021 à 18:00 UTC - https://meet.google.com/avf-pxsc-qcx
  3. 02-02-2021 à 23:00 UTC - Le lien de connexion sera disponible 15 min avant la réunion.

Tous les participants acceptent de se conformer aux règles de convivialités en place lors des évènements Wikimédia.

Ordre du jour

  • Logistique des permanence( Voir ci dessous)
  • Présentation de l'équipe
  • Des informations basiques sur le Conseil d'Administration et l'appel à commentaires
  • Questions et réponses

Comment participer

  • Nous utiliserons Google Meet. Les personnes connectée ou anonymes sont acceptées.
  • Nous partagerons le lien de connexion 15 minutes avant la réunion. Si possible, connectez vous plus tôt.

Pendant la réunion

  • Veuillez couper votre micro quand vous ne parlez pas.
  • Si vous avez des questions, levez la main et attendez votre tour.
  • Poser des questions courtes et qui portent sur l'appel à commentaires
  • Ne vous souciez pas des notification de demande d'accès à la réunion. les organisateurs les approuveront.
  • La réunion sera enregistrée
  • Les sous-titres automatiques seront activés.
  • Il y a une modération pour le tour des questions et la gestion du bruit.
  • Si besoin, l'équipe de permanence restera connectée pour les discussions informelles.
  • Pour des raisons techniques, nous ne pouvons pas proposer de streaming en direct (nous avons dû choisir entre le sous-titrage automatique ou le streaming en direct).

Après la réunion

  • Les organisateurs ne publieront rien au cours de la même journée, afin d'offrir une expérience nouvelle aux participants des deuxième et troisième réunions.
  • Le lendemain (ou à peu près), il y aura:
    • Les enregistrements vidéos disponibles sur Commons et Youtube
    • Un rapport
    • La transcription automatique complète
    • Il se peut que nous publions de courtes séquences vidéo sur des sujets spécifiques abordés lors de la réunion

Intéressés

Ajoutez votre nom ci-dessous pour montrer que vous êtes intéressé-e. Sachez que ceci n'est pas exiger avant de participer. Nous enverrons un rappel sur votre page de discussion le jour avant la réunion. Si vous préférez être notifié-e autrement, veuillez nous le faire savoir.

2021-02-02 at 12:00 UTC

  • Presenter: Quim Gil
  • Note-taker: Jackie
  • Moderator: Krishna
  • Time-checker: Mehman

2021-02-02 at 18:00 UTC

  • Presenter: Quim Gil
  • Note-taker: Jackie
  • Moderator: Denis
  • Time-checker: Mehman

2021-02-02 at 23:00 UTC

  • Presenter: Quim Gil
  • Note-taker: Jackie Koerner
  • Moderator: Oscar Costero
  • Time-checker: Zita Zage
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