I agree that Legoktm is an obvious choice for the Offline user group's
vote, even though I personally like other candidates too.
There's still value in a discourse with other candidates, so I
appreciate the proposal and work by Florence and Sam all the more.
Federico
Il 19/05/22 10:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon ha scritto:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there are very
fine people (better that than the opposite!).
>
> We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> (legoktm), who has been a long-time
supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he also
single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless to say
(but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since
we started sending them out.
>
> I encourage you to read his bio/user page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> - Kunal is not just a coder, but has
a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take here is
that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and
3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
>
> My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox
campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to support, I
encourage you to forward it to them as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephane
>
>> Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees.
>>
>> This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in
details, I invite you to read ALL the details on :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
>>
>> However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should
know...
>>
>> 1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
>>
>> Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of
candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list
of 6 candidates will be sorted
>> Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
>>
>> In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
>>
>>
>> 2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
>> They have provided initial statements.
>>
>> 3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process so
that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
>>
>>
>> 4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be
interested to, on this mailing list