On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Hi,
On Feb 2, 2012 8:41 AM, "Kirill Lokshin" kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org wrote:
That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this
committee would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits our ability to do anything creative.
I think there's a possibility of having the committee include non-board members.
There's already talk about making the candidates statements and other info public (not yet decided and I don't really know the rules or other details of the selection process) and also talk about making some of the discussions available to private members-only fora within a chapter. (I guess with someone that has access to both manually copy/pasting between them.)
Anyway, if you do choose a candidate selection/evaluation committee that includes non-board members then I think it should be possible to get them subscribed to both the list and wiki. (i.e. you ask and you get at least one supportive response and no objections)
That's not my impression; even under normal circumstances, the chapters wiki (as opposed to the internal wiki) is restricted to chapter board members and employees, and there's currently discussion about removing even the latter for the duration of the selection process.
We will, of course, continue to follow the discussions there; but, at this point, I don't see any indication that the process is going to be made substantially more open than it currently is.
Cheers, Kirill
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