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August 2024 Meeting Outcomes
[edit]The Board met in Katowice, Poland on August 5 and held its quarterly business meeting before Wikimania. The Board took the following corporate actions:
- Review, Ratification, and Approval of Consent Agenda, August 2024:
- Dissolving the Talent & Culture Committee. The responsibilities of the Talent and Culture Committee will be distributed between the Audit Committee and the Executive Committee.
- The charters of the Audit Committee and the Executive Committees will be updated to reflect the changes.
- Minutes Approval, June 2024. The committee reports can be found here.
- Renewing Nataliia Tymkiv’s Appointment as Chair, 2024. Nataliia will leave the Board in 2025 and her appointment as Chair will end, due to term limits on Trustees.
The Board voted asynchronously to update the charters of the Audit Committee and the Executive Committee to redistribute the responsibilities of the Talent and Culture Committee. The updated charters can be found here and here.
These updates will be included in the next issue of the Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin, you can subscribe to it here --NTymkiv (WMF) (talk) 21:50, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
Open Conversation with the Trustees on 27 November
[edit]The next Conversation with the Trustees will happen on Wednesday 27 November at 12:00 UTC (check your local time).
The 90-minute call will consist of updates and a short agenda, followed by open Q&A. Please bring your questions and join us on Zoom–we’d love to chat with you face to face. You can request the Zoom link by emailing askcac
wikimedia.org. You can also request live interpretation on Zoom by emailing askcacwikimedia.org.
For those that can’t join in Zoom, the call will be streamed to YouTube and available on Commons immediately after.
Full agenda will be shared on the event Meta page (linked above) in the coming days.
--ELappen (WMF) (talk) 20:51, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
- This call was postponed until the new year to allow for more community participation. The date will be shared soon --ELappen (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation welcomes community-and-affiliate-selected Trustees
[edit]The Board has appointed the four community-and-affiliate Trustees selected through the 2024 Board Elections process - Christel Steigenberger, Maciej Nadzikiewicz, Victoria Doronina and Lorenzo Losa. Read more about their appointments on Diff. The Board thanks Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, our two departing members, for their years of volunteer service and contributions -- NTymkiv (WMF) (talk) 18:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)