My two cents, just out of personal experience (definitely not a Foundation position!) --
I think Abbas's suggestion is more practical. Pick the group of people who would (collectively) provide the best leadership for WMKE, and let them figure out what division of labor within the board makes sense to them. My experience in NGOs (I have founded 2 and been a board member in 4) is that that is the best way to get good results.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Limoke Oscar oslimoke@gmail.com wrote:
Abbas, I think someone would vie for a post s/he thinks he can comfortably serve.I mean I wouldnt say vie for a secretary if am not interestde.Let someone choose a position s/he thinks he is in a position to serve. Another drawback is that how would the 'creme de le creme' decide amongst themselves who should be chair,vice ans staff?wouldn't this cause some cold blood and tension among themselves?
On 7/13/11, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:
Oscar,
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:37:57 +0300 From: oslimoke@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bylaws: ChapCom's Comments
About Electing the Board,members should be electing a position based.i.e electing X for the post of Chairperson and so forth....
Erm, I think this type of method has a disadvantage: for instance, 5
people
vie for the Chairperson seat and maybe only 1 person vies for the
Secretary
post; definitely, the Secretary will get elected; since (s)he has no competitor, and maybe out of the 4 that lost the Chair's seat, one of
them
could have been a better Board member than the secretary who had won.
What
I'm trying to say is that i think it's better for voters to vote for
their
best top 5 candidates; and the Board members will later on delegate their respective positions themselves. By doing so, we will get the creme de la creme to be on the Board. Abbas.
-- Limoke Oscar, mayenge.blogspot.com Freelancer, GeoInformatics and GIScience Student
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