At the moment, I imagine experience specifically with large-scale AI, and with state-level influence over information flows, are also relevant?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM Lorenzo <[email protected]> wrote: > Il giorno dom, 29/06/2025 alle 20.23 -0700, Luis Villa ha scritto: > > What does the rest of the board think the high-priority skill gaps > > and experience gaps (distinct, though related issues) are? > > The board periodically discusses which qualities, skills or experience > are most needed. Given that by the end of the year we have three > trustees ending their terms, we have recently had another round of that > discussion. > > Among the areas of expertise that most trustees find important to look > for, some are common board skills (not unique to the WMF board), like: > * Risk management > * Organizational strategy and management > * Board governance > > While others are related to more domain-specific knowledge or > experience, like: > * Public policy and the law > * Public relations > * Enterprise-level platform technology and/or product development > * Open Internet/free and open source software > > Both lists are roughly ranked (by number of trustees who said they are > among the most important ones). > > Lorenzo > > -- > Lorenzo Losa > Chair-elect, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/WHFMOOQTZQHHZPG3KCS3KE5IEQ6IFX3W/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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