I am very happy how this nowadays works out.
We have now a lot of chapters, each with a Board. And here the members
are not oldtimers and here is the appropriate first place to get into
the Wikmedia world.
And there are many bodies who you can then turn to to get further into
the Wikimedia w
I think Pine's message rather illustrates my point. Pine seems to assume
that the alternative is between people experienced in the WMF ways of doing
things and novices. Actually, there are plenty of people in the world with
experience in being trustees of non-proft organisations, and technical
ex
I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, I agree that we need to work on developing new leaders.
That includes:
* On-wiki administrators
* On-wiki program leaders
* Affiliate board and committee members (including user groups, which IMO
get far too little support from WMF)
* Affiliate p
You clearly have a strong and abiding interest in movement governance, and
have been asking some good questions. You should have submitted your
candidacy.[1]
To your point, I guess it can be taken as a reminder, but it does not seem
to me that the appointments were made *so as to minimize* influe
We have seen various appointments to influential committees within the WMF
"system" in recent weeks: the Funds Dissemination Committee and the Board
Governance Committee Volunteer and Advisory members; the Board Election
Committee is being geared up and new Board members will soon be selected by
th
