[Foundation-l] Board elections candidacy period time change

[Dan Rosenthal]

I find it somewhat ridiculous that someone would not know about the  
key dates. I've had them on my calendar for at least a month, if not  
more.

-Dan
On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> It appears that perhaps centralnotice might be working again.... once
> you've confirmed that on local wikis, would those of you who put up
> local notices kindly defer to the central notice?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> pb
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
>
>> Thanks Robert -
>>
>> You're correct that extending it doesn't do much good if we don't get
>> the word out.  Thanks for doing this.
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>>
>>> Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the
>>> hopefully
>>> temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate  
>>> notice
>>> using enwiki's local site notice.
>>>
>>> Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually
>>> know about it.  Philippe has been posting a notice about the
>>> extension
>>> at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather
>>> hit and miss.
>>>
>>> At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a  
>>> few)
>>> wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss.  For that reason, I
>>> wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take
>>> similar steps on other wikis.
>>>
>>> Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored  
>>> shortly.
>>>
>>> -Robert Rohde
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe
>>> Beaudette<pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>>>
>>>> As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices  
>>>> regarding
>>>> submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not
>>>> seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month.  Because of  
>>>> the
>>>> potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full  
>>>> and
>>>> active election, the election committee has determined that:
>>>>
>>>>      -  Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59
>>>> (UTC)
>>>>      -  The period for questioning candidates begins immediately.
>>>> Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be
>>>> scrutinized
>>>> by the community.  The Committee hopes that the community will work
>>>> to
>>>> actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning.
>>>>      - The dates of election will not change.  The election will
>>>> begin on
>>>> 28 July and end on 10 August.
>>>>
>>>> Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the
>>>> schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did
>>>> not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may
>>>> be
>>>> interested and qualified and may not have known about the key  
>>>> dates.
>>>>
>>>> For the committee,
>>>> Philippe
>>>>
>>>> (in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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