[Foundation-l] Future board elections

[Dan Rosenthal]

I agree with Thomas Dalton as well. Jimmy should be appointed, not elected,
since he's going to win anyway, we can better use that elected seat.

-Dan

On Dec 29, 2007 1:27 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since we are on the subject of Board elections, this might be a good
> time to restart the discussion on Meta concerning the rules and
> procedures for the elections. The Elections Committee for the last
> (June 2007) election (on which I served, as did Aphaia and four other
> Wikipedians) was appointed very late in the process. As a result,
> there was no real opportunity to discuss making any major changes to
> the rules and procedures, even if members had wanted to do so. To
> avoid the same situation in 2008, the 2007 committee recommended that
> this year the organization of the election start much earlier, partly
> for this reason and partly to ensure the best publicity, increase time
> to translate the notices, etc. As it happened, from my point of view
> last year's procedures worked fine and there is no need for major
> changes, but that should be a conscious community decision and not
> just a default one.
>
> Newyorkbrad
>
> On 12/29/07, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply, Florence.
> >
> > On Dec 30, 2007 12:48 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I am aware this will make more difficult for all members to meet
> > > together and should increase costs for meetings. However, it seems to
> be
> > > a more reasonable number to welcome both community members and
> > > outsiders, avoid putting too much constant pressure on volunteers,
> > > provide more diversity of skills and allow room for resignations...
> >
> > I've taken the point about "more reasonable number to welcome both
> > community members and
> > > outsiders" (since Jan-Bart, originally designed an outsider expert
> claimed
> > proudly to be a part of community [cf. Board Election 2007] and another
> > appointed ex-life member Jimmy is even considering to run for the next
> > Election, this argument makes a sense, I think), "more diversity and
> room
> > for resignation". However, since all Wikimedia Board of Trustees are
> > volunteers, while they take many responsibilities and take care of
> things in
> > reality not only the highest level of management, but still they are
> > volunteers, it is rather difficult for me to figure out how this
> increment
> > can help avoid "putting too much constant pressure on volunteers".
> >
> > Can you please give us some examples to deepen our comprehension?
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
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-- 
Dan Rosenthal