2007/7/17, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Given that Wikipedia grows rapidly, we need people who have a positive view on what can be done. This means that people who are blatantly negative about the organisation should not stand for election. When like Danny you leave the employment in a huff and insists on running with the slogan: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" it does not demonstrate a positive towards our organisation. Given the rather public outing of what are in his mind dirty linen, the negative attitude is underlined even more.
Well - in fact you can be not happy with the current state of organization or even think that current Board is leading the entire organization in wrong direction - but still be devoted to the general idea of Wikimedia projects. If you'd like let to candidate only people who always say they are happy with current Board's direction and decisions you are about to get rid of all the people with different point of view, who are brave enough to communicate it... Criticism of what the current Board is doing is IMHO very important - and should not be called automatically "negative attitude".