Hi Kunal,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:36 PM Kunal Mehta <legoktm at member.fsf.org> wrote:
I think it really depends for what kind of a makeup of committee we're looking for. I'd like to see the committee staffed with active Wikimedia developers who are familiar with our community norms, and then diversity across background/geography/employer/etc. I'm not sure whether an election is really the best way to create that kind of a committee.
I agree that diversity across a lot of different measures is good to have, whether it's done through elections or otherwise. Personally, I think it would be a big improvement if the Code of Conduct Committee were to include at least person from the so-called "Enterprise MediaWiki" community: people who use or develop MediaWiki outside of the Wikimedia Foundation or any Wikimedia site, such as people who run it at their company. I think it would bring a perspective that may be lacking in the committee at the moment (just judging from the current members' short bios), and could help to prevent some kind of ideological lockstep from forming. If it's not done through elections, maybe it could be done through a quota system or something...
-Yaron