my personal idea and proposal to structurally improve both turnout and involvement of the community in future wikimedia board elections is: replace the round of endorsements by a *real* first round; whether capped or no, it is a semi-vote still or at least a poll, so we better have *an election in 2 rounds of boardvoting; *the first round open to all, with mandatory personal identification (as is the case anyway); *the second and final round only with the top candidates, who have received sufficient support in the first round. this would make the elections more into a community-process imho best regards, oscar -- *edito ergo sum*