From what i see in the talk page for the event, in the English community

Hi Vikram, Some communities like Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati had village pump nominations first instead of directly placing names in meta. For those communities, sending new nominations officially will make WMF's job more easy and community accepted. For the rest of the communities, what you say is the final way. The aim of this exercise is to make sure we have ample representation of the community without leaving any seats vacant. Ravi _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Ravi, Going by what Asaf disclosed to me on an email off the list, the event was organized on these dates despite the knowledge of this major festival. I fail to see why it was done so in such hurried manner, whatever is the reasoning with respect to WMF travel schedule. Further, I was told that the dates were based on the communication from the EC (prior to the resignations). So, I checked with the former EC members who helped in communicating the possible dates and I was told that they were requested to choose between either the last week of September or the first week of October. They chose the latter as Sunil (of CIS) wasn't available for the former. There actually weren't other options based on what I'm being informed. I just don't understand why it is being pushed hastily like this. If it really is a "Community Consultation" and stands to be as important as it is made out to be, is it not fair to give it some time to get the required fair participation? Does this need to be done on a festival weekend when most community members will not be able to participate? My repeated requests for more transparency into all this by also making the conversations streamed online or making it available for others to participate isn't being heard at all, which is quite disappointing. My earlier comments on the whole exercise is here if anyone wishes to read it: http://bit.ly/Z4KnLL Cheers, On 19 September 2014 20:34, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

On 21 September 2014 21:01, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote: Planning holidays is fine, but planning festivals in advance? Seriously? -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

On 21 September 2014 21:55, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: Exactly. Says a lot about the project's adoption, doesn't it? And other than CIS and the Chapter, none were consulted about the dates. That says a bit more as well. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l