As I understand it, this committee will not be in charge of handling the elections themselves, but rather be about _how_ the elections should be conducted. This because some changes are needed in accord with the 'fiasco' of last year's election. Wikimedia is becoming ever more visible, and I believe that this year's election will garner quite a lot of media attention, which makes it even more important that everything is conducted correctly (other than the obvious reasons of fairness, etc., of course).
In other words, I don't see any reason why committee membership should be limited to those over 18, if there is a good candidate that doesn't meet that criteria. ;-)
On 5/5/07, Timichal timichal@timichal.net wrote:
Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
Dear members of the community,
As most of you know we will be holding elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in the near future. Your elected representatives Erik Möller (Eloquence), Kat Walsh (Mindspillage) and Oscar van Dillen (Oscar) all have terms that expire on July 1st 2007. We will therefore hold elections for these three seats in the coming months.
As a nominated member of the Board of Trustees it has been decided that I will be the person who will be the contact for these elections within the Board. But the real process will be guided by an "election committee". Amongst other things, the Election Committee will discuss and explore::
- revisions to the election method and process
- limiting organizational access to ongoing election records
- technological measures to improve voting security.
At this time I would like to ask any interested volunteers to submit a brief summary of qualifications to volunteering@wikimedia.org. This summary should consist of your username, list of active projects, real name and a paragraph or two explaining the skills that you feel would benefit the foundation in the elections process. The deadline for applications is the end of Sunday the 13th of May (UTC).
I suppose members of the committee have to be 18+ because of their IP checking abilities?
Thanks, Michal Zlatkovsky [[m:User:Timichal]]
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