Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Community Board seats/Conversations/Topic panels/Topic panel: Skills for board work

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This is a part of Topic panels series within the ambit of Call for feedback: Community board seats.

Topic

There is no current consensus about the skills desired in community candidates. For a moment, let’s imagine: What if… the Board would specify a set of skills desired in community candidates selected this year? How could the current practices be changed to promote the nomination and selection of candidates with appropriate skills and community support? What role should the Trustee Evaluation Form play?

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Disclaimer

This topic has been defined by the Facilitation team independently from the Board, based on the feedback received during the Call for feedback.

This is not to suggest that this will be the approach embraced. This is an opportunity to explore how such an approach might work.

Announcement

Please feel free to write down your topic-related questions and suggestions on the talk page before the panel starts. Panel moderators are glad to make them part of the discussion. Of course, you are invited to write in any language. The facilitation team will take care of translations.

Panel

The Panel will take place on Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC.

Panelists

Houcemeddine Turki (Tunisia), proponent of Specialization seats
Bobby Shabangu (South Africa), Wikimedia South Africa
Mykola Kozlenko (Ukraine), Wikimedia Ukraine board vice-chair and member of Project Grants Committee
Nattes à chat (Switzerland), member of Wikimedia France Conflict of Interest Committee and founder of Les Sans Pages project
Trustee: Lisa Lewin (USA), a chair of the Board Governance Committee

Moderators

Participants

Participants can express their interests beforehand, please sign up here:

Dumbassman (talk) 17:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Jan-Bart (talk)
Chico Venancio (talk)
- Darwin ^Ahoy! 15:27, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
NANöR--NANöR (talk) 17:53, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nehaoua (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Kunokuno (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Dang Brazal (Talk) 18:45, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
SHISHIR DUA (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Logistics

All participants agree to abide by the Friendly space policy for Wikimedia events.

The panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topic.

How to join

We will use Google Meet. Both logged in and anonymous guests are welcomed.
Join us on Google Meet

Join us in taking notes on the Etherpad.

During the meeting

Please mute yourself when you are not speaking.
If you want to ask a question, raise your hand and wait until your turn arrives.
Keep your questions short and on the topic of the panel.
Don’t worry about notifications of late arrivals requesting access. The organizers will approve them.
The meetings will be recorded.
Automatic captions will be enabled.
Expect basic moderation for the turn of questions and muting noise.
Expect quick moderation if anyone disrupts the room (the link is public, anyone can join)
If there is interest, at the end of the panel team members will stay and keep the room open for continuing conversation.
Due to technical limitations, we cannot offer live-streaming (we had to choose between automatic captions or live-streaming).

After the meeting

On the following days, expect:
- Video recordings available on Commons and YouTube
- A report
- Full automatic transcript