Dear Sam, dear all,
It was mainly my idea that we decided to talk to all candidates.
I was under impression that we would have the opportunity to talk with all candidates in Berlin. I did get the reasoning that it would be too expensive to do it (in fact, all you have to do to get to WMCON is to apply for BoT and be endorsed by some chapter), but I really wanted to make the decision at least fairly...
If we are not interested in people who may be our future members of WMF Board, how can we expect that they are interested in us? There are some excellent people nominating themselves, asking for our trust that they can do better, but we do not know them at all. And if we are voting only based on our personal connections, we would always vote for the same people. I thought it was wrong.
We have struggled to find the balance between talking to people via skype/hangouts and not doing that. And this is the best solution we came up with. Maybe if I did not have the idea that we are going to have all candidates present during WMCON, I would try to do something else... But I did have that impression.
We understand the difficulties of the process we decided to follow. I understand the concerns. But some crucial things about the candidates you can learn only in such a way: - are they willing to communicate with affiliates? - how they answer in real life? - how clearly they explain their thoughts? etc.
And even the level of English is important. These people are going to represent (to some extent) our movement.
Best regards, Ilya / ILLIA KORNIIKO Chair Wikimedia Ukraine
З повагою, Ілля Корнійко Голова Правління ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» +38 067 65 66 177 http://ua.wikimedia.org
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Sam Klein sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:52 AM, attolippip attolippip@gmail.com wrote:
JFYI, Wikimedia Ukraine has not voted yet, as we wanted to talk to the candidates via skype/hangouts before making the final decision [1] [2]
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[4] [5] [6] And during Wikimedia Conference we had a chance to talk only to three people.
Does this mean that each candidate is expected to have 40 different 1-hr Skype chats, one with each chapthorg? That sounds grueling. I thought the value of public questions was that candidates could answer once instead of 40 times.
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