[Foundation-l] Future board elections

[hillgentleman]

Dan,
The discussion is as least as important as the result.
I want to vote on J. Wales.

Best,
H.

On 29/12/2007, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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