I see no reason not to aim for it to be as perfect as possible. I am not talking about on the scale that the foundation elections are, simply a small group to ensure that this election is being run as fairly as possible.
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:50:40 +0100> From: thomas.holden@gmail.com> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] WMUK election commitee> > Seems a little excessive. This election was never expected to be perfect.> > 2008/9/5 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk:> > As you all may or may not be aware, WMUK are going to be having elections to> > form> > an interim board, to run WMUK and be responsible for the running of the> > until the> > time that the company is formed. Until now, the elections have mostly been> > arranged> > by those participating in them, and i feel that this is not particularly a> > good thing> > and I wanted to improve the legitimacy of these elections. Following> > separate> > discussions with Cary Bass and Tom Dalton the idea that I would like to> > propose is to> > have what is effectively an election committee designed to oversee the> > running of> > the WMUK elections. The proposed make up of this board is as follows, two> > representatives from the UK, one person from ChapCom and one from the> > foundation> > board, however any of those numbers and where the members are sourced from> > can change if a consensus for it exists.> >> >> > The role of this committee would be to oversee the elections, ranging from> > deciding> > the timetable of events, overseeing the voting stages including the methods> > and> > medium the voting will take place in and finally the verifying and> > announcement of> > the results. I hope that this would allow the UK board an amount of> > legitimacy in the> > running of WMUK in the eyes of the UK community and also the foundation.> >> > If the UK community has no issues I would like to offer my services to> > organise this.> > Comments would be grateful.> >> > User:Seddon @ en-wiki> > ________________________________> > Try Facebook in Windows Live Messenger! Try it Now!> > _______________________________________________> > Wikimedia UK mailing list> > wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK%3E > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l%3E >> >> > _______________________________________________> Wikimedia UK mailing list> wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK%3E http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
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