We are to rank all candidates. Shani has also done great work these last
few years and has supported offline efforts during this time. She is
currently on the board so has excellent experience of what is involved.
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 20:22:40 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Offline-l] WMF board elections are back
To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
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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
Cheers
Florence
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 09:23:50 +0200
From: Stephane Coillet-Matillon <stephane(a)kiwix.org>
Subject: [Offline-l] Re: WMF board elections are back
To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
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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
Cheers
Florence
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