I have views on both votes, but I'll just share one, as I no longer feel that sharing any more of my viewpoint about the WMF board and its elections here or on-wiki would be welcome, or make any difference apart from helping to paint a bigger target on my back.
Having James back on the board is helpful in demonstrating the election has value in its currently limited format, and gave a strong and unambiguous message back to the WMF board of trustees. He provides some of us long termers a friendly private channel with a trustworthy fellow volunteer, who has no worrying political or commercial interests.
Fae
On 14 July 2017 at 20:46, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all!
The Support and Safety team is looking for your thoughts on the recent Wikimedia Foundation elections cycle - that is, the Board of Trustees elections in April/May, and the Funds Dissemination Committee meeting in May/June.
What do you think went well, and what do you think could have gone better?
I'd love your thoughts, either on this email thread or on the dedicated Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Post_mor...
Feel free to email me privately if you'd like to.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, good or bad. :)
best, Joe