View source for Submissions:2024/Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

{{WCNA 2024 Session Submission
|status=Accepted
|type=Panel followed by open Q&A
|theme=Governance & Strategy
|abstract=The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will host a short panel followed by an open discussion with the audience. They will give a brief introduction to what the Board does, discuss how the trustees' work both impacts and is shaped by communities, and discuss together with Foundation leadership some crossroads facing the Foundation and the movement, and how they've been viewing and advising through these moments of strategic decision. They will then open the floor for questions and discussion with the audience.

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1v2MikwgKd44__i1NQXNJkiLr3mLZOmO7jNnk28Vb170/edit#slide=id.g30594f33d30_0_1107 Slidedeck link] (in progress). 

|author=Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee), Raju Narisetti (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee), Kathy Collins (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee), Selena Deckelmann (Chief Product and Technology Officer, Wikimedia Foundation), Lisa Seitz-Gruwell (Chief Advancement Officer, Wikimedia Foundation), Elena Lappen (moderator. Movement Communications Manager, Wikimedia Foundation)
|username=ELappen_(WMF)
|email=elappen{{@}}wikimedia.org
|affiliates=Wikimedia Foundation
|scholarship=Yes
|time=45 - 60 minutes
|livestream=Yes, you may livestream my session
|presented=Yes, at previous WikiCon NAs.
}}