[Foundation-l] board elections: help wanted

[Brad Patrick]

I look forward to finding out more about why a candidate would not want
email.  If it isn't stated somewhere explicitly, the notion of someone
thinking they can effectively participate as a board member without email
is, well, absurd.

On 8/21/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for showing interests,
> Although I directly replied to a certain editor who has been already
> involved into the operational side very well, and personally I
> convinced all involved parties will be supportive for this editor, I
> think it would be nice to show what we/I did and will do last week and
> this week.
>
> *Done
> - a meeting  (1 hour) with Datrio via google chat on confirmation
> (procedure, drafting relevant announcement etc).
> - posting that announcement to meta & foundation-l (by me)
> - bringing a possible problem on candidacy (by me; no response until now)
> - replying Fl Celloguy's questions sent to us three
> - trying to multilingualize meta sitenotice (by me; failed)
> - copyediting some Japanese translation related to the Election
> - found some wikis lacking sitenotice; contact to the local people
> through irc and other media and ask them to restore (by me; needed
> three days in a sum; I hope local community realises the global
> sitenotce is the notice on the global issues from the Foundation,
> based on many discussions between several involved parties [this case,
> Election officers, Communication committees and some developers], and
> even if they don't want, it is unthoughtful to remove it without
> reporting to the global community in a proper channel like
> foundation-l)
> - drafting a note for candidates (by me; thanks mindspillage for her
> copyediting)
> - send meta mails to unconfirmed candidates (be me; I asked others to
> share this work but no response came; then I realized a need to
> additional help).
>
> Though I wanted to do something for Election related as one of
> Election Officials and of Promotion & Translation Subcommittee, I
> found no enough time to deal with those. So it should be done in this
> week.
>
> Todo:
> - end the confirmation process [till Tuesday]; currently four
> candidates had no information from us, if I recall correctly. They
> want not to be mailed. Perhaps we put a note to their talk or
> otherwise.
> - discussion and decision-making of a certain candidate's candidacy [till
> 8/28]
> - checking translation of candidate presentation and coordination, if
> necessary. Collaboration with PTsubcom might be considered. [asap, and
> till 8/28]
> - preparing the translation platform for new boardvote messages [asap,
> and translation into major langs will be ideally ended before the
> voting, 9/1, or the voters will be misinformed in some points]
> - make a complete list of [confirmed] candidates and give it a
> developer (perhaps Tim Starling) [8/29]
> - update Election FAQ on meta, if possible, translation coordination
> of FAQ into several major languages
> - checking wikis randomly to know if they have been informed about
> this Election properly (some wikis might hold the last year notice
> ...) [if time available]
>
> I hope these two lists help you to understand what we have done and
> will do, and also why I think an additional help is necessary at this
> point.
>
> Also, I'd like to stress that I expected the requested helper as not
> informal one, but a formal additional staff, since I think the absence
> of two "inspectors" has paralysed the decision making process related
> to this Election recently, and personally I think it inappropriate
> that one remaining, that is,  "additional" officer (in this case, me)
> makes a decision unilaterally, in particular some serious issues like
> candidacy or voters' eligibility. To make a decision by consensus, I
> long for an additional staff whose opinion can be legitimately
> reflected to the Election Officials decisions.
>
> I had no time to discuss the above with anyone until now, so don't
> know how the idea we have one another Election Official in that moment
> will be considered by the Board, other Officers and involved parties,
> however I'd like to point out that it would be better for us to have
> such before voting starts than after that.
>
> > > > On 8/19/06, Anthere < Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems we have a shortage of help for election officials, at
> least
> > > > for
> > > > > august. Could someone give a hand to Aphaia and assist her ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Anthere
>
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