[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Foundation Governance

Sun Jul 14 17:06:47 UTC 2013

Hi all,

By an amazing coincidence, just today there's been a Board Retreat and
we've discussed this very question. We agreed that there should be a
community representative on the board, and we'll be putting together a
process for this shortly. So watch this space!

Other board members are selected to ensure the critical board functions
around governance can be delivered by people with the appropriate skills
and expertise; we hope to refresh the processes and documents to explain
this in more detail shortly too.

Best regards,

Laura

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On 14 July 2013 12:34, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in knowing how the Open Knowledge Foundation Board of
> Directors are selected. I'm pretty new to the OKFN movement, so I'd highly
> appreciate some pointers to relevant links, if any.
>
> Also, has the OKF ever considered empowering the community to (s)elect
> some seats at the Board Level? I know that other like-minded organisations
> like Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons usually does that, which
> tends to give the community a sense of belonging and a voice at the
> decision-making level.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Abbas.
>
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