Board structure (Was: New Elections Committee) - Wikimedia-l

26 Jul 2016

Dear all,

As Christophe mentioned, BGC has discussed Board composition issue and
decided that the best way is to wait for the results of the governance
review.
It was mentioned in the minutes, by the way [1]

If you have relevant arguments and think that it would make sense for other
people to be aware of these arguments, please, *discuss them on Meta*.
Mailing lists are not very useful for things like that.
There is a talk page for this [2]

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Boar…

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:22 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

...
  Pine has a point. We all know that the founder seat
will go eventually.
 Whether it goes on the death or incapacity of the founder or earlier is a
 valid question for the board and the community. I'm not convinced that an
 elections committee should be deciding which posts to elect, and even if
 such governance issues do fall into its remit they should probably focus on
 how to elect first. So I'd say this should be a board decision.

 As for the arguments to retain a founder seat for the next few decades, I
 suggest that those who favour such a position try to couch their arguments
 in terms of institutional knowledge, the value of an element of continuity
 and the positives for the community to still retain such a link with our
 founder. Then hope that the incidents of a few months ago fade in memory
 and are not repeated. There is a case to be made for a founder seat, but as
 with any argument in this community there are ways to argue respectfully
 and effectively, and there are arguments that undermine your cause and
 weaken your reputation.

 WereSpielChequers

 On 26 July 2016 at 06:39, &lt;wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:

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    2. Re: New Elections Committee (Pine W)
    3. Re: New Elections Committee (Gerard Meijssen)

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 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:53:59 -0700
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 Hi BGC,

 I asked a question earlier in this thread which seems to have been
 overlooked. Is the BGC (or the Board as a whole) considering whether the
 Founder's seat will become an elected seat in the forseeable future?

 Pine

 On Jul 20, 2016 21:20, "Pine W" &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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