I will confirm Ting's explanation here regarding NomCom. There was no list for 2009 appointments. So it is true that Matt was not on the 2009 list. No one was. Matt was interviewed by Micheal and Sue, who as members of Nomcom, were aware of our decision to focus on finding expertise in both fundraising and 501(c)(3) organizations for the vacant seats. I find Matt to be a great fit for WMF with the sort of experience we have been most anxious for. Personally I wish that Nomcom could have located Matt a year ago and presented him as part of a Oct 15 2008 list and that he would have been able to share is experience with WMF throughout this year instead of just this short interm. This of course did not happen, but it should not seen a fault of Matt's that it was not the case.
Birgitte SB
--- On Wed, 8/26/09, Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de wrote:
From: Ting Chen wing..philopp@gmx.de Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:44 PM Hello Kropotkine_113,
since I am on the NomCom I will answer your questions.
Kropotkine_113 wrote:
Has Matt Halprin been designated to the Board by the
Nominating Commitee
(NOMCOM) ? This is explicity required if I read
correctly this page :
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announceme...
This is not correct. Essentially the NomCom should nominate the board members, and should do this at the end of last year. But it didn't worked out. There are multiple reasons for that. Basically that was the first time that we worked how it can work and how not. We are simply lack of experience. So, it didn't work out last winter. We should have four nominated candidates appointed to the board by the begin of 2009 but we had only two by that time. According to the bylaw of the Foundation IV 6 the board can appoint trustees because of vacancy, this is the case. So Matt was not on the NomCom list. But we had informed the NomCom though about this process. After Wikimania the NomCom would resume its work and make suggestions for next year. So Matt would be included by NomCom in its list that it would suggest to the board by December or would drop out.
Does he fulfill the Nomitanig Commitee selection
criterion : "Membership
in the Wikimedia community" ? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nominating_Committee/Selection_criteria#Gener...
Where is the list of the other candidates designated
by the NOMCOM ?
The list of NomCom is not published because of privacy. It is a very simple thing. If someone is suggested on the list and he is not selected or he declined, in either cases can it can both be embarassing for the person as well as for the Foundation. So the NomCom had decided on its first meeting that the list would not be published and should be kept confidential. This would also be the case for the coming years.
Could we see the discussions and the recommandations
of the nominating
commitee ?
Because of the nature of the confidenciality of the NomCom the discussion are kept internal. But there are meeting minutes and the mailing list is archived. The NomCom published a status report which is published here: [1]
Is it possible to know which member of the Board of
Trustees agree this
appointment ? Or at least juste the repartition
support/against in the
Board ?
The discussion about this assignment and the voting about it would be published as one of the topics of the August board meeting. I want to respect the secratory offices role here and don't make any announcements prior of Kat's publication of the minutes. What I can say at this point is that I voted for Matt for the following reasons: First of all Jimmy and Michael interviewed and talked with Matt. Both of them had recommended him as a valuable plus for the board. The board had interviewed Matt in Buenos Aires, had discussed all the problems that may be raised or values that may be added. According of all these evaluations I feel no problem as voting for him. We worked with Matt in Buenos Aires during our strategic planning session and I feel that our positive evaluation was confirmed as Matt had inputted a lot of insights out of his experiences about procedures and measurements of success.
Ting
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nominating_committee
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