Thank you, Isarra! Quite a lot to digest.
FYI, I have just signed up for and become a "facilitator" for the
election.
Note that therefore I may neither endorse any candidate, nor
participate in any public discussions of candidates' merits,
nor participate in any decision about how an affiliate organization's
vote is cast.
(as noted in
)
Has our annual report been linked in to the appropriate official places?
-Neal
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 05:34:10PM +0000, Isarra Yos wrote:
Apparently the affiliate-selected board seat
change is this:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/
Resolution_2019
So actual thing:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
It looks like they somehow mistook me for the point of contact for
the user group (possibly because we don't have one? is that even
possible? or am I, in which case, is that wise?) and that's why I
got the emails. Anyway, here's the sum of what seems to be the
case:
• We, as a user group, get a vote on the two affiliate-selected
board seats! Probably. All the user groups in good standing now
get a vote, along with all other affiliates. (Unless you have
two really redundant groups or something, but that doesn't really
apply to us.)
• We may or may not need to actually specify a membership list to
do this. Technically the list on meta seems to count, though,
even if it's not necessarily accurate.
• We do need to get our annual report in (and we will! Yay! We're
on top of things!)
• To vote, we will designate a delegate to actually cast the
vote. How they vote is up to us as a pile, or them, or whatever we
all decide in general. Maybe we sign up a bobcat someone
trapped in their kitchen and it does... something totally random?
Probably not, but that'd be a proper local, at any rate.
• Voting works by ranking candidates. More information will
happen on this once candidates nominate themselves.
• Any of you can nominate yourselves as a candidate, unless
you're a bobcat or something. For the WMF board. Yes. But you
probably can't be our delegate if you do?
• Okay, so we probably can't nominate a bobcat as our delegate
either.
• Also they need more facilitators for the actual vote, if
anyone's interested, but the deadline is apparently today.
If any of this is totally unclear (or possibly downright
incoherent), I sincerely apologise, but I'm not dealing with the
bobcat.
-I
On 29/03/2019 08:56, Isarra Yos wrote:
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
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