Hello Everyone,
So yesterday, the Electoral team met finalize on the arrangements for the
forthcoming board elections to be held on Saturday, 31st March - 2012.
Below are the key
points to note -:
1. The elections date remains as announced earlier on, 31 - 03 - 2012,
beginning from
12 noon.
2. Voting by Proxy still allowed in any case need might be. The person who
wants
to vote by Proxy has to therefore mention his proxy before the due date and
send them with the necessary requirements for the voting process.
3. All contestants registered will be allowed to take part as candidates.
No one
will be disqualified as far as eligibility is concerned for their
candidature, unless
otherwise proven!
4. For the Q & A session, the electoral team welcomes all questions starting
today, an official compilation of the questions will be sent out today as
well.
The session will run through Thursday till Friday.
5. Friday is a 'Free Day'! We'll be taking any views and comments with
regards
to the Elections process!
Lastly we'd like to invite everyone to come and be part of this Great
History in the
making, 'The First Board Elections - WMKE Chapter' !
Warm Regards,
//Cliff
Hallo everyone,
The team in charge of overlooking the election process managed to meet
yesterday for the first time. The team is composed of Branton, Cliff and I,
and the meet-up was aimed at brainstorming on how the upcoming election
will be conducted and to plan for all the activities that will precede the
actual election. Generally, we aim at having a free and fair election
process that will also be educative and eventful. Hence, we call for all
members to kindly come out and support this activity in a positive manner.
The different activities that we agreed on and the dates we expect them to
be performed are stated below:
1. *Declaration of intention.* This serves as an official announcement
by a member to contest for the position of board member of WMKE. This can
be done on our official mailing list, as most of you have done, and the
last date for this activity will be on Wednesday, 21st March 2012 by
1159hours.
2. *Registration of contestants.* This will involve the determination of
whether an applicant is eligible to contest for the position of a board
member of WMKE as per the Chapter's Constitution or any other rules agreed
upon by the members. This is fully the responsibility of the electoral team
and the results are to be released on Saturday, 24th March 2012 between
noon and 1159hours.
3. *Setup of the contestants bio-page.* A bio page on the wiki will be
setup for the purpose of giving all the contestants an opportunity to
wikify their plea to the members on why they are best suited for the job.
This will be coordinated by the electoral team and the bio-page on the wiki
will be setup on Friday, 23rd March 2012 by 1159hours.
4. *Bio posting by the qualified contestants. *All the contestants that
qualify to contest will be expected to post their bio's on the developed
wiki (Number 3) by Sunday, 25th March 2012 at 1159hours. Note that a
qualified contestant has 24 hours to complete this task or be disqualified.
5. *Posting of Questions to the contestants. *In order for us to have a
Question and Answers (Q&A) session online, questions will be sent to the to
all qualified contestants by e-mail. The electoral team will then receive
the various responses from the qualified contestants (PRIVATELY), after
which the team will wikify them depending on the contestants turn to
respond to the views and opinions of the members. This posting will be done
on Sunday, 25th March 2012 by 1159hours.
6. *Response to questions asked by the contestants. *The contestants are
expected to respond to the questions asked on Monday, 26th by 1800hours.
They will send this responses to the electoral team privately and NOT on
our usual mailing list. This is aimed at ensuring the Q&A sessions are
conducted in an orderly manner and equal time will be availed to all
contestants to interact with the members.
7. *Q&A sessions.* This will involve the posting of the responses
provided by the contestants on the wiki by the electoral team, and an
eventual discussion by the members and contestants. Each member will have
specific time to interact with the members through the setup wiki. This
will be conducted from Tuesday, 27th March to Thursday 29th March 2012.
8. *Open Day.* This will be on Friday, 30th and contestants will be
allowed to post openly in our mailing list and involve members in
discussions. A Skype chat will be chaired by the electoral team later in
the day to try and get the contestants to interact with the members.
9. *Election Day. *This will be on Saturday, 31st March 2012 at a time
and venue that will be communicated by the electoral team by Wednesday,
28th March 2012 latest 1600hours.
Note that the following were agreed upon by the team on Yesterdays meeting
as well.
- This election will see the selection of five members of WMKE, by
secret ballot, to the board of the Kenyan Chapter of Wikimedia by the
voting members, and after which the selected five will decide on who will
occupy the 5 positions defined by The Constitution.
- The basis of determining those members eligible to contest or vote in
this election will be based on the rules determined and agreed upon by the
members in the meeting held at The Public Service Club on Saturday, 11th
February 2012.
- Voting by proxy will be available as per The Constitution. The
electoral team will inform all members on how this will be conducted once
we finish up on the logistics of its execution.
- The team calls for members to come out and participate in this
activity with utmost fairness and integrity.
- Any queries or opinions about the election are greatly encouraged but
the electoral team request that such be communicated privately to any/ all
of the team members privately first. However, you are required to cc Asaf
on such communications for the purpose of openness and fairness. We will be
glad to try and provide solutions to any questions and challenges as we
guide each other on undertaking this activity.
>From the electoral team.
Regards,
--
*Chris A. Riwa*
Research Specialist and Consultant
Mobile: *+254(0)725-930-850
*e-mail:
- *chriwaustin(a)gmail.com*
- *otieno_chris(a)yahoo.com*
- *chriwaustin(a)facebook.com*
Skype: *chriwaustin*
Facebook: *facebook.com/chriwaustin*
Sorry for being blunt :-|
I have heard lots of complaints about this mailing list from both local chapter members, Wikipedia editors, and the wider Wikimedia community. Phoebe once mentioned something about mailing lists that I believe is worth sharing:
One point that I have thought about, and talked about privately with
some of you, is (particularly on a list like this) how much time --
how many person-hours -- is spent on each email. An email list where
the entire staff and chapters officers are subscribed means that each
email is read by a few hundred people, many of whom are getting paid
and/or who have serious institutional responsibilities. So even if a
long mail only takes 5 minutes to read, parse and think about, how
many person-hours (and in turn donor dollars, lost productivity, or
time taken from other things) are being spent? Let's be optimistic and
assume that any given email is only read by *half* the list. 5 minutes
x 100 people = 500 minutes / 60 = 8.3 hours.
So one full workday -- 8 hours of our collective time -- for each long
email. That is a heavy burden to ask of ourselves, and a heavy
responsibility on those of us (like me!!!) who go on at length in
their mails!
Being the admin of this list, I have seen soooo many people unsubscribe to this list, mostly because they have found it nonconstructive and lots of lip-service going on. So people can be free to post whatever they want on this mailing list, but that doesn't mean that we are free from the repercussions of what we say. The consequence of this being a list that is ignored, or people unsubscribe, or even get added to a kill file.
So we can therefore continue on as we are, and reap whatever the results of that are or individuals can choose to self-moderate.
The choice is yours!
Abbas.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:02:15 +0300
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you
From: njeriannk(a)gmail.com
To: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
that wasn't sooo kind....
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Oh my goodness, Lisper! May I ask you to please pause and breathe in (and out) before sending unnecessary emails to this list? I am quite overwhelmed by my almost unmanageable inbox, and would highly appreciate it if we'd stop flooding people's inboxes.
--Abbas.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:44:47 -0700
From: lispermwende(a)yahoo.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you
thank you for the security
that was very good of you
that's why i choose to work with you
am assured of security.
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hey David,
when is the meeting nyam chom pap,
anyway, please tell us of the date time and the venue
n will be there we complete syllabus thing and move on
regards,
lisper..
I am a male aged 23 and just cleared my degree in Actuarial Science.I would
be happy to join wikimedia in Kenya and participate in all its activities.
Regards,
Vincent Kiplangat.
I would love to join the piloting this is awesome,
would even the checking of the Kenyan schools program so as to get the whole idea and familiarize with the system will be more than glad.