My two cents, just out of personal experience (definitely not a Foundation
position!) --
I think Abbas's suggestion is more practical. Pick the group of people who
would (collectively) provide the best leadership for WMKE, and let them
figure out what division of labor within the board makes sense to them. My
experience in NGOs (I have founded 2 and been a board member in 4) is that
that is the best way to get good results.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Abbas,
I think someone would vie for a post s/he thinks he can comfortably
serve.I mean I wouldnt say vie for a secretary if am not
interestde.Let someone choose a position s/he thinks he is in a
position to serve.
Another drawback is that how would the 'creme de le creme' decide
amongst themselves who should be chair,vice ans staff?wouldn't this
cause some cold blood and tension among themselves?
On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Oscar,
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:37:57 +0300
From: oslimoke(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
About Electing the Board,members should be
electing a position
based.i.e electing X for the post of Chairperson and so forth....
Erm, I think this type of method has a disadvantage: for instance, 5
people
vie for the Chairperson seat and maybe only 1
person vies for the
Secretary
post; definitely, the Secretary will get elected;
since (s)he has no
competitor, and maybe out of the 4 that lost the Chair's seat, one of
them
could have been a better Board member than the
secretary who had won.
What
I'm trying to say is that i think it's
better for voters to vote for
their
best top 5 candidates; and the Board members will
later on delegate their
respective positions themselves. By doing so, we will get the creme de la
creme to be on the Board.
Abbas.
--
Limoke Oscar,
mayenge.blogspot.com
Freelancer,
GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
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