Given the quickly approaching deadline, and the general support for affiliates voluntarily sharing if they voted (not who they voted for) - I went ahead (after chatting with folks that attended WikiCon) and setup a Meta-Wiki page to allow folks to voluntarily report back over the next couple of days: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Voted https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Voted
-greg (User:Varnent)
On May 4, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, There is a difference between your formality and what actually happens. The board is unlikely to not accept a chosen representative. I wonder if it ever did. Given the quality of the people who can be chosen from, do you really expect this to happen and consequently what is it what you want to achieve except for airing your formality? Thanks, GerardM
On 4 May 2016 at 12:58, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
As of now, 13 of 42 eligible organizations have voted in the 2016
chapters'
election for 2 of 10 Wikimedia Foundation seats on the board of trustees.
Lane,
A procedural question: Is the chapters' vote binding on the board, or is it the same as for the three community board seats, where the community members selected in the community vote are merely recommendations that the sitting board is free to accept or reject?
If the winners' actually joining the board is dependent on the sitting board's approval of these candidates, then it's not really a chapter "election" for those board seats: it would be more precise to speak of the chapters' vote as a vote to identify chapter-recommended candidates for those two board seats.
While that's more clunky – if that's what it really is, then I think it's important that we use language that accurately reflects the process by which community- and chapter-selected candidates end up on the board.
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