Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019/notes/2019-03-20 Agenda and minutes for first facilitators' call

2019-03-20 Agenda and minutes for first facilitators' call

Formal appointment of Election Facilitators by affilitates took place on April 6, 2019. Attendees at meetings prior to April 6, 2019 did not have any mandate.

Attendees:

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  • Abhinav Srivastava
  • Ad Huikeshoven
  • Erica Litrenta (WMF staff)
  • Jeffrey Keefer
  • Lane Rasberry
  • Shani Evenstein
Absent:
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  • Nihlus

Agenda

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  1. Introductions
  2. Appointment of (deputy) liasion to chair of WMF
  3. Draft process and timeline
  4. Action points for next meeting

1. Introductions

  • Abhinav Srivastava, India, member, WMIN and contributes to Hindi/English language Wikimedia projects and working with The Wikipedia Library. Former Board Member, Wikimedia India
  • Ad Huikeshoven, The Netherlands, member of WMNL, contributor since 2005, served on Audit Committee of WMF, former board member WMNL
  • Erica Litrenta, Italy, member of WMIT, in the Movement since 2005, now supporting this process with WMF
  • Fulbert / Jeffrey Keefer, New York, coffee lover, WM NYC, Wiki Loves Vegan
  • Lane Rasberry, Virginia, United States, WM NYC
  • Shani Evenstein, Israel. Chair, Wikipedia & Education UG; Chair, WikiProject Med UG.

2. Appointment of (deputy) liasion to chair of WMF The group decides to appoint Ad as liasion to chair of WMF and Abhinav as deputy.

3. Draft process and timeline After deliberation, the outline of process and timeline is:

  • By April 7th - finalize agreement (resolution) and send to the board
  • By April 15th - Get approval from board
  • Nominations - 15-30th April
  • Voting - during May.
  • Results - by the end of June.

4. Action points for next meeting within 24 hours

  • Ad will draft a resolution
  • Ad will inform María
  • Jeffrey and Shani volunteered to draft a proposal, with help of Lane, for the presentation at the Wikimedia Summit as only Jeffrey and Shani will be in Berlin for the summit.