On 1/28/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
One other issue that needs to be dealt with immediately is the opposition vote by a member of the Wikimedia Foundation board.
Two members of the Board were elected by the community, so, unsurprisingly, those two people are going to be involved in community matters like this poll. I realise some people would prefer the Board be made only of external people, but with the current situation, you're going to have to accept that at least two people on the Board have dual roles of being on the Board and being Wikimedians. I am not going to accept the constant attempts to prevent me expressing any opinion outside of official meetings.
We will soon have the Special Projects Committee http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Special_projects to decide things like this, so I can't see the results of the poll going directly to the stage of Board decision anyway. Since we're delegating authority away from the Board, my view on the matter, as someone not intending to be on the SP Committee, isn't any more relevant than that of anyone else voting.
Angela.