Lane Rasberry,
I'm aware of the ongoing election - but in all respect, that has nothing to
do with a house of representavtives as I envision it, i.e. being "above"
the board.
The present structure allows the existing board to decline access to the
persons being elected.
Regards,
Thyge
2016-02-23 16:05 GMT+01:00 Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>om>:
Hello,
Could I remind you all that there is a board election in progress right now
for 2 of the 10 seats? Please see details for the 2016 Affiliate-selected
board seats election at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016>
Amir, you said that you wanted representation from "India, China, Russia,
Iran, Brazil, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Arab countries and
finally, all of Africa". If you like, you may encourage anyone from those
countries to seek a nomination. Also, it would be very helpful if you could
encourage the Wikimedia chapters in those countries to participate in the
election in any way that they could, especially by planning to vote during
the upcoming voting period.
Thyge - we do have a sort of house of representatives and it has a board
election happening right now.
Nominations for the board are open till March 8! Election starts March 24!
Please share the message.
Thanks - if anyone has questions post on the election page.
yours,
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>
wrote:
On 2016-02-23 14:54, Thyge wrote:
> We should not have direct elections to the board. We should have a
"house
> of representatives" with X members from
each part of the world and
charged
> with electing the board and decide major
issues like location of the
WMF,
changed
of bylaws etc.
Regards,
Thyge
I do not think it could solve the diversity issue.
To appoint the number of individuals with a set of skills and needed
diversity, one needs candidates which will have needed skills and desired
diversity to start with.
Our experience as a movement (and also of people in other organizations
in
different contexts) that these people do not
always queue at the doors of
the WMF office to wait for being elected. They need to be scouted,
negotiated with, and convinced to be willing to sit at the board. This is
what currently various companies are paid to do, and this seems to be a
reasonable arrangement to me.
As far as the candidates are there, I do not see much of a difference
whether the community, a selected group (like house of representatives),
or
the Board votes for them. And as soon as there is
no difference there is
also no need to make the structure more complicated. I thus conclude that
this House of representatives is not needed for the Board elections.
(It might be needed for other things, which are outside the scope of this
discussion).
Cheers
Yaroslav
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