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From: Ting Chen <tchen(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Note from the Board Chair
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Dear friends,
Today, here in Gdansk, at the meeting of the Board of Trustees during
the sixth annual Wikimania Conference, the Board made some important
changes. I'm pleased to share this news with you. The Foundation will
be issuing a public announcement shortly as well.
Every year at Wikimania, the Wikimedia Board appoints its officers for
the coming year. This year we have changes to each of the Officer
roles. As of today's meeting, I was fortunate to be appointed Chair of
the Board - and I'm grateful to have the support of the Board in this
new role.. Stuart West was appointed Vice-chair (and continues as
Board Treasurer), and Samuel Klein becomes Board Secretary.
Also, the Wikimedia chapters have made their selections for the two
chapters-selected Board seats. Arne Klempert has been reappointed to
his seat, and Phoebe Ayers has also been appointed to join the Board.
This means that Michael Snow will be leaving the Board: he has been
invited to join the Advisory Board, and the Board warmly thanks him
for his service.
Michael Snow has been a tireless and dedicated leader of this Board,
and the whole Wikimedia movement, over the past two years. I want to
express my sincere thanks to him on behalf of the Board and all of the
Wikimedia community. I am also excited to congratulate and welcome
Phoebe Ayers to the Board, and also to congratulate Arne Klempert for
his re-appoitment to the Board in a Chapter-appointed seat.
There are 10 seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and
according to the Foundation's bylaws, three members are elected by the
Wikimedia community, two members are selected by the Wikimedia
chapters, a Community Founder seat held by Jimmy Wales, and four
members appointed by the Board itself to provide additional, specific
expertise. Currently all seats on the Board of Trustees are filled.
This is the first time that the official Chapters selection process
has been carried out. Members of Wikimedia's global chapters, made a
call for nominations for new members and voted to elect their two
members. In this year's election nine candidates from the Wikimedia
community originally stepped forward. Two of those candidates stepped
out of the process, leaving seven candidates for selection by the
Chapters.
All of the officer appointments are effective immediately, and we are
pleased to welcome Phoebe to the Board right away.
I'd like to thank the Chapters for their thoughtful work in convening
a process and carrying out their voting process. I would also like to
thank all of the candidates who stepped forward for with their
nominations.
I'm looking forward to an incredible year ahead. We have an ambitious
plan for the Foundation and the projects over the next year, and we
have a tremendous group to tackle a busy year ahead.
Sincerely,
Ting
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Ting Chen
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org
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