Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-11 Thread Balázs Viczián
Thank you Asaf. This seems to be a mixture of ppl mgmt and org skills, shifted heavily towards the latter. The last time I was at wmcon was 2014 [1] when this was bearly a topic at all, only touched it here and there a bit, when it was inevitable. Good to see the progress on this. Hi Mike, perha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-11 Thread Michael Peel
Nominally, the WMF is going to be the next Wikimedia organisation to do a governance review, as per: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-11-17,18,19#Governance_Review Thanks, Mike

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-10 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:36 AM Balázs Viczián wrote: > > Would love to see people management skills workshops, and organizational > skills (logistics) workshops...but I attend an event only every 2-3 years > (or less), so this is just an almost silent suggestion :) > Wikimedia conference in rec

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-10 Thread Balázs Viczián
This report is pretty useful in terms of comparing my chapter's policies to this. Probably some fine tuning will follow. Thank you for sharing! Note the pattern: UK, Germany, France, all 'big' chapters. My guess is that the next one will very likely to be another 'large' chapter (100+ members, mul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-09 Thread Alphos OGame
Forgive my (usual ?) bluntness, but I don't think congratulations are in order for undertaking the governance review ;-) As a member and unwilling observer, I can tell you it was dearly needed, be it by internal or external auditors, and mandated by the WMF. However, as a long time member of th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-09 Thread Chris Keating
Congratulations to Wikimedia France for undertaking this review and publishing the results. I believe all of the 3 governance reviews are important reading for anyone involved with the WMF or any of the affiliates, and all have important lessons for the movement. It's interesting to note that this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-09 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Hi Nadine, Thanks for sharing the document with us. I read it and I found interesting to see the different clashes: - there is no awareness of the individual interpretations of our mission - the community wants anarchism in order to feel free, however the organization needs some kind of structur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-09 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Thank you very much, Nadine! As it is, as far as I remember, the third governance review of a Wikimedia affiliate, I just created a page on Meta where they can be collected. Feel free to add/modify: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Governance_Review Cheers Cornelius On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 08:59, I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-08 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Hi Nadine, Thank you for sharing the report with us. I just gave a quick look at it, and I printed it so I could read it on the flight to Cape Town. But I agree with you that it's an important review and the recommendations are important and may be useful for all of us! Itzik *Itzik Edri* Chai

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

2018-07-08 Thread Nadine Le Lirzin
Hi all, As announced last month on this list[1], the Governance Assessment Report by external auditors "Associés en gouvernance" has been published, and we want to share it with you. The auditors did a great work, first in their rather good understanding of our movement complexity, and then in th