[Wikinews-l] Board expands number of seats

[Jason Safoutin]

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:47:30 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] board expansion
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Dear community

The board recently passed a resolution, which you will find below

In the aftermath of the resignation of Michael Davis (effective october 
31th, 2007) and Erik Mo?ller (effective december 15th, 2007), the board 
confirms its will to replace the two former board members, as well as 
its committment to expand the number of members on the board of 
directors at the earliest convenience, up to a number of 11 members 
maximum. Due to its commitment to involve members from the community, at 
least half of the new members will be appointed for a term ending at the 
next board elections, in june 2008.

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Florence



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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:08:32 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] Future board elections
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The board recently agreed to expand the board up to 11 people.

Some of the board seats will be up for elections, including mine. I am 
not sure yet how many seats will be available, this will be clarified in 
the following weeks. But it seems clear there will be at least 3 seats.

I wanted to give you a pre-position on this matter.

In june 2008, I will complete 4 years on the board, including 1 year and 
a half as chair.

I stopped working just 2 years ago, immediately before the birth of my 
third child. I now wish to officially be in activity again (meaning: 
working for a salary :-)). A month and a half ago, I registered myself 
as looking for a job (http://www.anpe.fr/) and am every week meeting 
professionals to work on my professional project.
And to be fair, I am not really sure how compatible it is to manage 
family/WMF/job.
I also think I may be able to help the projects by continuing my 
activity within Wikimedia France and indicated some time ago, my 
interest for being a candidate at the next board election (january or 
february 08).

As such, I would be happy to start the discussion as to who would be 
interested/willing joining the board of WMF (as appointed or as 
elected), and who would be potentially interested in the role of chair 
in the future.

Meanwhile, I go on holidays  :-)  (good food, good wine, cheers, presents, 
compliments and generally good will and good feelings)

Cheers

Ant