Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee/Board transparency

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Publishing draft agendas one week ahead
Comment: It is possible only for planned meetings;
Publishing minutes timely (two weeks after the meeting?)
Support: It is difficult to remember exactly how the meeting went, unless you took notes. So reviewing the minutes becomes formal
A staff-elected ombudsperson as an observer at the Board meetings
Comment: No need to be present during all Board meetings
A Community Broker as an observer at Board meetings
Comment: see Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2016#Community Broker or Grants:IdeaLab/Community Broker for the Board of Trustees
Community requests for discussion (=sufficiently well-supported topics to be placed on the Board's agenda)
Comment: see Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2015#How to petition the board and Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2016#Community Requests for Discussion
Unpublished resolutions
Comment: it seems that the Chair of the Board has the power to determine that a resolution should not be published (see wmf:Vote:Board deliberations). The Board to commit itself to publishing for every resolution either the full text or a dated statement that a non-public resolution was passed (see Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2016#Unpublished resolutions)

Creating a Board updates page on Meta
Comment: The Communications team does not have enough resources budgeted for this year

Comment: A centralized place? Grants:IdeaLab/A place to work together
One (rotating?) person from the Board responsible for quick summary of a board meeting
Comment: Dariusz volunteered
Board Q&A with answers to all questions
Comment: see Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2015#Please Submit Questions for Board Q&A

Comment: see Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard#Future of this Noticeboard

Be better at follow-through
Comment: It is impossible without documenting what has been done already, what was discussed, what is planned etc
Sharing long-term strategy
Comment: see Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Archives/2016#Deep_strategy. The ED and Board has only started working on the concept of this

Comment: A place "for strategic interaction between the Community and the WMF leadership on the long-term direction of the mission and a high-level view of the technical programmes required to deliver it" (see Grants:IdeaLab/Strategy Alpha)