2009/8/19 Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com:
I hope that some Foundation staff or board member will comment on what has happened here. Wikimedia Foundation server resources were used to coordinate a discussion of issues by no less than eight candidates for the Board of Trustees.
What WMF server resources were used? I imagine there was a link put on meta somewhere, but that's about it. The Q&A happened using Skype's servers. I think it is extremely disappointing that Wikivoices did this and didn't publish it and I think the candidates that turned up deserve an explanation, but it really has nothing to do with the WMF. Perhaps in future the WMF should run a Q&A session like this and make sure it is done properly, but I don't remember it being suggested before, certainly not very prominently, so we can't really complain that they didn't do it this time round.