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

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2024.

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Title:

Open Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Type of session:

Panel followed by open Q&A

Session theme(s):

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.

Author name(s):

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)

Wikimedia username(s):

ELappen_(WMF)

E-mail address:

elappenwikimedia.org

Affiliated organization(s):

Wikimedia Foundation

Estimated length of session

45 - 60 minutes

Will you be presenting remotely?

Okay to livestream?

Livestreaming is okay

Previously presented?

Yes, at previous WikiCon NAs.

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