Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat... They have provided initial statements.
3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be interested to, on this mailing list
Cheers
Florence
Hi everyone,
Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm (legoktm), who has been a long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
I encourage you to read his bio/user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm - Kunal is not just a coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
Cheers, Stephane
Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com a écrit :
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
- Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
- Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat...
They have provided initial statements.
Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be interested to, on this mailing list
Cheers
Florence _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list -- offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to offline-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
I agree that Legoktm is an obvious choice for the Offline user group's vote, even though I personally like other candidates too.
There's still value in a discourse with other candidates, so I appreciate the proposal and work by Florence and Sam all the more.
Federico
Il 19/05/22 10:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm (legoktm), who has been a long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
I encourage you to read his bio/user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm - Kunal is not just a coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
Cheers, Stephane
Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com a écrit :
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
- Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
- Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat...
They have provided initial statements.
Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be interested to, on this mailing list
I think it is an excellent idea for any member of this group to publicly stand for one candidate or another, and provide his or her arguments for the support. It will help both during the Affiliate vote process AND during the community vote process, to gather a better understanding of each person. So go for it ! (@ Stephane... Federico... James and all others who wants to give their opinion on one or several candidates).
Cheers
Flo
Le 19/05/2022 à 09:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon a écrit :
Hi everyone,
Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm (legoktm), who has been a long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
I encourage you to read his bio/user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm - Kunal is not just a coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands /us/ (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
Cheers, Stephane
Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com a écrit :
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
- Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two
step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
- Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat... They have provided initial statements.
- Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare
a process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
- I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should
they be interested to, on this mailing list
Cheers
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Thanks Stephane and Federico for the support :)
I've been a member of this group basically since it was created and as Stephane said, re-introduced the entire Kiwix stack into Debian as well as designing/implementing the package building CI and Ubuntu PPA to make it trivial for users to install the latest version of Kiwix, plus significantly reducing friction between the Debian side and Kiwix devs.
I was first (and still am) a user of Kiwix, having used it when my college had terrible WiFi and later when I was reporting as a journalist internationally and had a pretty small data plan (I look stuff up on Wikipedia/Wiktionary *a lot*). And now I'm an advocate for Kiwix, up to the point that my non-wiki friends have laptops with Kiwix webcam blockers.
As I've written in my platform[2], I would like to bring my technical experience to the WMF board, offering a perspective that is grounded in reality from working on the ground with significant parts of our technically focused communities.
I'm happy to answer any questions people might have, or respond to comments/concerns.
[1] https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Ubuntu_PPA [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat...
Thanks, -- Kunal / Legoktm
On 5/19/22 03:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon wrote:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm (legoktm), who has been a long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
I encourage you to read his bio/user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm - Kunal is not just a coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here that
- Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands
/us/ (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
Cheers, Stephane
Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com mailto:fdevouard@gmail.com> a écrit :
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
- Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two
step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
- Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidat... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates They have provided initial statements.
- Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a
process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
- I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should
they be interested to, on this mailing list
Cheers
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