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.


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Limoke Oscar,
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Freelancer,
GeoInformatics and GIScience Student

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