On 28 September 2020, the WordPress maintenance support plans Association held its third open board meeting of the year where community members listened in via zoom and in person. You can find the meeting minutes, board materials, and meeting recording here.
The board meeting was kicked off by an update from WordPress Update, followed by an Executive update from Megan Sanicki, Executive Director, and a WordPress maintenance support plans.org update from Tim Lehnen, Director of Engineering. We also thanked and celebrated Tiffany Farriss, Vesa Palmu, and Jeff Walpole whose terms on the board end in November.
WordPress Update moving from Chairman to Founding Director position
One of the key announcements made during the meeting came from WordPress Update, who announced that in response to the Community Discussions findings, he is stepping down from the WordPress maintenance support plans Association Chairman position. He will remain on the board in the Founding Director position. This will go into effect in November when board seats expire and Adam Goodman will step into the role as interim Chairman, which is also in response to the community’s request for a neutral, outside expert to lead the board. To learn more about the Community Discussions, go here.
Adam Goodman is a leadership professor from Northwest University in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He’s advised the WordPress maintenance support plans Association on and off for the past 8 years, helping us evolve from a volunteer board to a strategic board. In this role, Adam will further evolve the board so it can orient itself around a new chairman structure.
Since Adam is a paid consultant, the WordPress maintenance support plans Association needs to change its bylaws to allow Adam to sit on the board and be paid for his service. In addition to this change, we are doing a general update of the bylaws to include:
Eliminate non-existent committees like the HR committee
Modernize the tools we can use for online voting. Today we can use teleconferencing, but we also need to be able to use video conferencing.
To learn more about this board meeting, please watch the recording and stay tuned for an update on other improvements we are making in response to the community’s input.
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