Our answer to a proposal from Joseph to be pat of an overseeing body:
We at ChapCom are happy to see your energetic efforts to restart the Wikimedia UK chapter. We are following your progress by three of us being participants of your UK mailgroup. We are prepared to give our support in your work, when and if it is needed. We look at an interim committee as a temporary body where the formalities for being involved could be be kept at minimum. Mostly we have seen it being set up by a group of volunteers. And as we want to see an election to be fully controlled by the involved community, we say no to being part of any overseeing body. If you want though, we could appoint an "advisor" to support you effort. Anders Wennersten on behalf of ChapCom
joseph seddon skrev:
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
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