Delphine Ménard wrote:
The PMC have a couple of officers, such as a chair and a secretary. Those could either be appointed by the board or appointed by committee members with veto from board. But in any cases, the officers have a legal responsability, so should absolutely be RealPerson.
*Wikimedia Foundation members - those would be nominated by the board, proposed to the board by anyone else who feels someone should be a Foundation member. They could be issued directly from the community, from the PMCs or from anywhere else.
Correction again. WMF members should not be appointed by the board. They should be elected by the community. I would even go as far as to suggest that there should be NO board veto over these ones. If a problematic person slips in, it will not be a big deal, because of the size of that membership. We could expect a membership of over 100 people. They could indeed be issued from anywhere.
Here I do not understand if you're correcting my understanding of how ASF works, or my application to WMF.
This part: "How does someone get ASF Member ASF member is a person that was nominated by current members and elected due to merit for the evolution and progress of the foundation. Members care for the ASF itself."
is not clear as to who elects the ASF members. My understanding is that they were nominated by an ASF member (or through an ASF member upon recommandation from someone external) and voted in by the existing ASF members. Seems I am wrong.
Correcting the understanding of how ASF works.
It is actually unclear on their website. But Lars was very clear when he explained it to me yesterday.
Participants elect ASF members. Not all participants... sufficiently active ones (I do not know how he exactly defines "active". For us, that would probably be anyone who has been involved in a project for at least 3 months and xx number of edit AND/OR anyone who is active on one of the Wikimedia Chapter)
It is not really an election. It is more a process such as our sysop elections. Wide support : the guy is on. Mild support or opposition : the guy is not on.
He did not say if it was upon nomination from someone, or candidacy.
But it was definitly not election from those already AFS members. Note that it is not a definite nomination. Once you are trusted and appreciated, you are a member. Period. You do not have to be confirmed every year or so. I suppose that if someone gets totally out of it, they have a system to "remove" him though.
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