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(a)gmx.de> wrote:
From: Ting Chen <wing..philopp(a)gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia
Foundation
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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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 :
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#Gene…
Where is the list of the other candidates designated
by the NOMCOM ?
  Â
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 ?
  Â
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 ?
  Â
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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