I agree with Thomas Dalton as well. Jimmy should be appointed, not elected, since he's going to win anyway, we can better use that elected seat.
-Dan
On Dec 29, 2007 1:27 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
Since we are on the subject of Board elections, this might be a good time to restart the discussion on Meta concerning the rules and procedures for the elections. The Elections Committee for the last (June 2007) election (on which I served, as did Aphaia and four other Wikipedians) was appointed very late in the process. As a result, there was no real opportunity to discuss making any major changes to the rules and procedures, even if members had wanted to do so. To avoid the same situation in 2008, the 2007 committee recommended that this year the organization of the election start much earlier, partly for this reason and partly to ensure the best publicity, increase time to translate the notices, etc. As it happened, from my point of view last year's procedures worked fine and there is no need for major changes, but that should be a conscious community decision and not just a default one.
Newyorkbrad
On 12/29/07, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Florence.
On Dec 30, 2007 12:48 AM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I am aware this will make more difficult for all members to meet together and should increase costs for meetings. However, it seems to
be
a more reasonable number to welcome both community members and outsiders, avoid putting too much constant pressure on volunteers, provide more diversity of skills and allow room for resignations...
I've taken the point about "more reasonable number to welcome both community members and
outsiders" (since Jan-Bart, originally designed an outsider expert
claimed
proudly to be a part of community [cf. Board Election 2007] and another appointed ex-life member Jimmy is even considering to run for the next Election, this argument makes a sense, I think), "more diversity and
room
for resignation". However, since all Wikimedia Board of Trustees are volunteers, while they take many responsibilities and take care of
things in
reality not only the highest level of management, but still they are volunteers, it is rather difficult for me to figure out how this
increment
can help avoid "putting too much constant pressure on volunteers".
Can you please give us some examples to deepen our comprehension? Cheers,
-- KIZU Naoko http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Britty (in Japanese) Quote of the Day (English): http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/WQ:QOTD
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