[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

[Dan Rosenthal]

I'm not sure I agree at all with this solution. This sounds very much  
to me like a voir dire of the potential members before they can ever  
even be considered for the board. Who are these "others" that will  
cull down the names to the short list? How were they chosen? What  
right do they have to be excluding others from consideration before  
the board? As a community organization, this council should be created  
with the utmost of transparency. I don't see any reason for there to  
be a short list. Rather, why not have a page on Meta where anyone who  
wants can submit their name for consideration?

-Dan

On Mar 14, 2008, at 6:42 PM, effe iets anders wrote:

> I would like to explicitly invite everybody again to send me names of
> potential candidates. I will come up with a longlist first, and  
> after some
> considerations with a few others, come up with a shortlist. that  
> shortlist
> will be added to the resolution as a recommendation, so that the  
> Board can
> decide on the names effectively. I think that although this is not  
> the most
> transparent way, this is the most friendly way. Nobody is waiting  
> for a
> flame war on potential candidates. Having a bit of oversight can  
> gurantuee a
> good spread of candidates over all parts of Wikimedia. I will most  
> likely
> publish the shortlist before handing it to the Board, so that if  
> there are
> major concerns about certain candidates, these can be brought to the
> attention of the Board. It is not an ideal procedure, I immediately  
> admit
> it, but I think it will bring the fastest results. (note that 4-7  
> april is
> the next board meeting, this is already in roughly three weeks! I  
> want to
> have this proposal finished by then.)