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Following the Boston Board meeting on August 4, we the Election Officers announce hereby the upcoming September election will fill the board position of Angela Beesley.
We wish all candidates good luck, Datrio, Essjay, & Aphaia 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC), Election Officials, Wikimedia Election Committee 2006
This presumably means there will be no new seats up for election this year?
On 8/14/06, Dariusz Siedlecki datrio@gmail.com wrote:
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Following the Boston Board meeting on August 4, we the Election Officers announce hereby the upcoming September election will fill the board position of Angela Beesley.
We wish all candidates good luck, Datrio, Essjay, & Aphaia 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC), Election Officials, Wikimedia Election Committee 2006 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I'm not sure what you mean. Angela has announced she is leaving the Board. This election will fill her slot.
Jon Harald Søby wrote:
This presumably means there will be no new seats up for election this year?
On 8/14/06, Dariusz Siedlecki datrio@gmail.com wrote:
(Copy/paste from Meta, yes, I'm lazy)
Following the Boston Board meeting on August 4, we the Election Officers announce hereby the upcoming September election will fill the board position of Angela Beesley.
We wish all candidates good luck, Datrio, Essjay, & Aphaia 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC), Election Officials, Wikimedia Election Committee 2006 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
(Copy/paste from Meta, yes, I'm lazy)
Following the Boston Board meeting on August 4, we the Election Officers announce hereby the upcoming September election will fill the board position of Angela Beesley.
We wish all candidates good luck, Datrio, Essjay, & Aphaia 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC), Election Officials, Wikimedia Election Committee 2006 -- Siedlecki
This presumably means there will be no new seats up for election this year? -- Jon Harald Søby
I'm not sure what you mean. Angela has announced she is leaving the Board. This election will fill her slot. -- Brad Patrick
"At least one trustee will be elected to a term ending July 2007." - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En.
From Dariusz's email it seems no other positions will be voted for next month.
Jon Harald Søby wrote:
This presumably means there will be no new seats up for election this year?
This mostly mean the board was not able to reach an agreement on how many new seats should be opened, nor on when, nor on how they should be filled up.
I am actually not fully sure there is general agreement for board expansion. I put a resolution on the board wiki many weeks ago on that topic. The only comment offered was Angela's, who said "Oppose since it's not clear whether this applies to existing members and gives no rationale for not all of the members being elected." Other members did not comment the resolution, nor vote.
Angela wished all new seats filled up by election. I wished some of the seats filled up by election and some by appointement. Jimbo apparently wishes only appointements.
There is no evidence as of today that appointments will have a time limit in the future (such as 2 years) (the resolution dealing with that issue did not receive sufficient votes to pass).
So, current elections will only concern Angela seat and the board will discuss possible expansion and Tim Shell replacement after the elections. Seemingly, Tim Shell will be replaced by appointement. Though...
It may be that results of the elections influence appointements if there are appointements for new seats. This is likely to depend on who is precisely elected in september.
Ant
On 8/14/06, Dariusz Siedlecki datrio@gmail.com wrote:
(Copy/paste from Meta, yes, I'm lazy)
Following the Boston Board meeting on August 4, we the Election Officers announce hereby the upcoming September election will fill the board position of Angela Beesley.
We wish all candidates good luck, Datrio, Essjay, & Aphaia 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC), Election Officials, Wikimedia Election Committee 2006 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Anthere wrote:
Angela wished all new seats filled up by election. I wished some of the seats filled up by election and some by appointement. Jimbo apparently wishes only appointements.
No, I am open to a variety of options. My feeling is that we will make very good progress in figuring these things out in our board retreat, face to face, high bandwidth.
--Jimbo
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