On behalf of British community and the election committee, I would like to thank all those who participated in this election. The committee apologises for the delay in getting these results out. Internet access and real life resulted in time not being readily available this weekend and hence the lateness. In total, 27 members of the British community voted in the election, therefore, to reach the 50% requirement, 14 votes in favour of a candidate were required.
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
I would like to wish the best of luck to all those who will be responsible, whether board members or not, for making Wikimedia UK a fully functional and successful chapter . In time, feedback will be passed onto the board before the next elections to hopefully improve this process.
User:Seddon @ en:wiki
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2008/9/30 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk
The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
Congrats!
Id just like to give my thanks to the election committee for organising this for us, and I hope the rigour the process achieved will have gone some way to countering the doubts some people had about how representative WMUK could ever be.
Those of us elected have been handed a clear mandate to turn WMUK into an open, transparent and democratic charity as soon as conceivably possible, something I for one am determined to see happen. I urge the future members of WMUK to hold a (metaphorical) whip over me and the rest of the board to keep things moving and to make sure we dont stray from what weve been elected to do.
We are very much only a temporary board, and I hope that all of those who stood this time will stand again in the official elections which will hopefully come in the next few months. I also hope that those who have been instrumental in getting us this far (not least Tango) will continue to help as actively as they have up to now.
I should also add a brief apology: Ive been in crunch with a paper since getting back from holidays so I havent been around as much as I might have been, so sorry! Ive been continuing slowly at least with Wikimania stuff and have a few new open leads, however in the next few weeks Ill be both ramping up my efforts on it and making a more concerted effort to assign jobs to particular people.
May I suggest that we have our first open board meeting at 8PM tonight (Tuesday) on IRC to discuss whos doing which of the initial tasks.
Tom
From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of joseph seddon Sent: 30 September 2008 00:50 To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Results of Wikimedia UK board election
On behalf of British community and the election committee, I would like to thank all those who participated in this election. The committee apologises for the delay in getting these results out. Internet access and real life resulted in time not being readily available this weekend and hence the lateness. In total, 27 members of the British community voted in the election, therefore, to reach the 50% requirement, 14 votes in favour of a candidate were required.
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
I would like to wish the best of luck to all those who will be responsible, whether board members or not, for making Wikimedia UK a fully functional and successful chapter . In time, feedback will be passed onto the board before the next elections to hopefully improve this process.
User:Seddon @ en:wiki
Election committee
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Those of us elected have been handed a clear mandate to turn WMUK into an open, transparent and democratic charity as soon as conceivably possible, something I for one am determined to see happen. I urge the future members of WMUK to hold a (metaphorical) whip over me and the rest of the board to keep things moving and to make sure we don't stray from what we've been elected to do.
Oh, don't worry, I'll get a real whip if need be! ;)
Likewise, I would like to thank everyone who has given taken part so far in helping to get a new chapter going, whether that's the election committee for running the election, the candidates for standing, or the wider community who has voted and/or offer comments or thoughts. I would hope to
May I suggest that we have our first open board meeting at 8PM tonight (Tuesday) on IRC to discuss who’s doing which of the initial tasks.
The 8pm of 30th September? Unfortunately I will be otherwise engaged not least for the fact that it's my birthday. :)
KTC
I would also like to ditto what KTC and Tom have said, with especial thanks to the election committee and to all that voted. I hope that we can get WMUK2 set up as speedily as we can.
Having the initial meeting in IRC on Thursday 2nd October at 8pm works well for me.
Thanks, Mike
On 30 Sep 2008, at 04:09, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:
Likewise, I would like to thank everyone who has given taken part so far in helping to get a new chapter going, whether that's the election committee for running the election, the candidates for standing, or the wider community who has voted and/or offer comments or thoughts. I would hope to
May I suggest that we have our first open board meeting at 8PM tonight (Tuesday) on IRC to discuss who’s doing which of the initial tasks.
The 8pm of 30th September? Unfortunately I will be otherwise engaged not least for the fact that it's my birthday. :)
KTC
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joseph seddon wrote:
On behalf of British community and the election committee, I would like to thank all those who participated in this election. The committee apologises for the delay in getting these results out. Internet access and real life resulted in time not being readily available this weekend and hence the lateness. In total, 27 members of the British community voted in the election, therefore, to reach the 50% requirement, 14 votes in favour of a candidate were required.
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
I would like to wish the best of luck to all those who will be responsible, whether board members or not, for making Wikimedia UK a fully functional and successful chapter . In time, feedback will be passed onto the board before the next elections to hopefully improve this process.
User:Seddon @ en:wiki
Election committee
Thank you Seddon
Given that an association anchor you in the real world, could you please provide the real name equivalent of these people ?
Thanks
Ant
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:06, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
joseph seddon wrote:
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
Given that an association anchor you in the real world, could you please provide the real name equivalent of these people ?
She beat me to it. :-)
I think it would make a lot of sense, especially to dissociate their role on-wiki from their role off-wiki.
Cheers,
Delphine
2008/9/30 Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:06, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
joseph seddon wrote:
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of those people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
Given that an association anchor you in the real world, could you please provide the real name equivalent of these people ?
She beat me to it. :-)
I think it would make a lot of sense, especially to dissociate their role on-wiki from their role off-wiki.
Cheers,
Delphine
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Names are listed on meta.
The elected members by real name are:
Kwan Ting Chan Andrew Turvey Tom Holden Michael Conn Mike Peel * *An all male board, sadly, but maybe the new temporary board can also work on this in the future.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]] Andrew Turvey http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AndrewRT
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2008/9/30 Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:06, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com
wrote:
joseph seddon wrote:
5 candidates will head the initial board for Wikimedia UK and be responsible for its set up. Due to only 5 candidates reaching the required 50% vote the board the board will consist of
those
people. The board members are as follows:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
Given that an association anchor you in the real world, could you please provide the real name equivalent of these people ?
She beat me to it. :-)
I think it would make a lot of sense, especially to dissociate their role on-wiki from their role off-wiki.
Cheers,
Delphine
~notafish
NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Your emails will get
lost.
Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org
Names are listed on meta.
-- geni
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Ian A. Holton wrote:
*An all male board, sadly, but maybe the new temporary board can also work on this in the future.
Looking at user pages, and candidate statements, etc, it would appear that with the possible exception of user:Kate (who has not obviously disclosed their gender anywhere I looked) all the candidates were male. This means that an all-male board was (all-but) guaranteed before the election started.
Ian A. Holton wrote:
The elected members by real name are:
Kwan Ting Chan Andrew Turvey Tom Holden Michael Conn Mike Peel
Congratulations to those elected.
I am pleased to add my personal support to this new venture although it is unlikely that this will turn in to much more than peanut gallery stuff (I'm a crack shot with those things sometimes).
However, In my day job I manage OSS Watch, the UK Innovation Support Centre for open source in Higher and Further Education. We are based at the Univerity of Oxford and funded by the Joint Information System Committee (JISC).
As the objectives of the foundation are firmed up I will be looking on to see how we can best build a symbiotic relationshp.
The first point of call will be with respect to the conference proposal. At the very least we can get any University owned venues at a discounted rate - but I'm sure we can do more than that for you.
Ross
All,
The first meeting of the WMUKv2 board will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8PM (British time) on IRC, probably on the #wikimedia-uk-board channel (if otherwise, then details will be emailed to this list).
Everyone is invited to listen, but speaking will probably be restricted to board members only or people that the board invites to speak, so that the meeting can go quickly and smoothly. Discussion about the meeting will probably take place simultaneously in #wikimedia-uk , which at least one board member will be watching. A log of the meeting will be made available afterwards.
Mike Peel
I hate to be a bother, but what does that translate into for UTC?
--Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
All,
The first meeting of the WMUKv2 board will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8PM (British time) on IRC, probably on the #wikimedia-uk-board channel (if otherwise, then details will be emailed to this list).
Everyone is invited to listen, but speaking will probably be restricted to board members only or people that the board invites to speak, so that the meeting can go quickly and smoothly. Discussion about the meeting will probably take place simultaneously in #wikimedia-uk , which at least one board member will be watching. A log of the meeting will be made available afterwards.
Mike Peel
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7PM UTC.
Mike
On 1 Oct 2008, at 20:25, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
I hate to be a bother, but what does that translate into for UTC?
--Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
All,
The first meeting of the WMUKv2 board will take place tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8PM (British time) on IRC, probably on the #wikimedia-uk-board channel (if otherwise, then details will be emailed to this list).
Everyone is invited to listen, but speaking will probably be restricted to board members only or people that the board invites to speak, so that the meeting can go quickly and smoothly. Discussion about the meeting will probably take place simultaneously in #wikimedia-uk , which at least one board member will be watching. A log of the meeting will be made available afterwards.
Mike Peel
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2008/10/1 Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com:
I hate to be a bother, but what does that translate into for UTC?
The UK is currently on summer time, which is one hour ahead of UTC (or GMT) - so 8pm British time is 7pm UTC.
Congratulations to the 'new batch' (and condolences to your email which will not forgive you for the spam it will eventually receive!)
I've written to each of you separately, but here I'd just like to note that I am pleased that April 13 is still getting an influence over things ;-P
Regards
Alison
April 13?
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia@alisonwheeler.com
wrote:
Congratulations to the 'new batch' (and condolences to your email which will not forgive you for the spam it will eventually receive!)
I've written to each of you separately, but here I'd just like to note that I am pleased that April 13 is still getting an influence over things ;-P
Regards
Alison
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2008/9/30 joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk:
KTC AndrewRT CFP Warofdreams Mike Peel.
Congratulations :-)
- d.
Ditto what everyone else said, congrats to those elected and thanks to the election committee and all who stood.
I know I haven't been involved much in the chapter discussions so far, but I've been out of the country and only recently got back (the election committee might have noticed my vote coming in at the last minute!). I hope to be able to help out more now though. Having failed to write the previous Signpost article I promised (although Ral315 did a very good one instead), I've pulled my finger out and written up one on the election - it's currently languishing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_wub/post if anyone wants to check it for factual errors.
the wub
P.S. Happy belated birthday KTC!
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