Just a reminder that if you'd like to be on the Wikimedia Board, you've got about 98 hours left!
cheers,
Gaurav
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[All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links
Date:
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:02:00 +0200
From:
Ad Huikeshoven <ad(a)huikeshoven.org> (mailto:ad@huikeshoven.org)
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Dear All,
Please post your nominations at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominat… within the next 100 hours. Limit your text to 500 words.
Please pay attention to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questio….
Best wishes,
Ad Huikeshoven
Election Facilitator
Hello friends!
As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees is soon going to include two members elected by Wikimedia Affliates [1], including the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group (hereafter: "we" or "our" or "WM-CUG" if I'm feeling formal). A call for candidates to these positions is now open [2]. After May 8, we will be submit ONE VOTE in which we RANK the candidates we would like elected to the board in our order of preference. The ugly details are available here [3], but really this is just a Single Transferable Vote [4].
I'm currently listed as the primary contact for WM-CUG, so I'll make sure we can discuss this vote on-wiki and on this mailing list, decide on our final vote, and communicate that to the Wikimedia Foundation (hereafter: "thems"). If somebody else would like to take over this job, please holler! If you have any other questions, please let me know and I'll send it on to thems and see what thems say.
Note that we're only eligible to vote because Isarra and Nealmcb completed and submitted our Annual Report 2018 [5], so thanks so much for that!
cheers,
Gaurav
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Call_fo…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_election_FAQ…
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_single_transferable_votes#Droop_quota
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_R…
Hi, all.
So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I
want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and
have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?!
But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than
previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years
either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That...
discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this
same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have
any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be
looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely
affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who
occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations?
Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not
really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a
mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this
conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been
able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki,
either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over
and being ill.
So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any
more about that one, and what do we make of that?!
-I