[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines
Dan Rosenthal
swatjester at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 21:14:36 UTC 2007
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have elections coming up again in
December 2007?
-Dan
On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> I agree with Brad, endorse his suggestion, and am pleased to help
> with this discussion any way that I can.
>
> Philippe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:32 PM
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and
> guidelines
>
>
> Let me add my congratulations to the successful candidates in the
> Board
> election that just concluded, and my thanks to everyone who
> participated --
> including all the candidates, my fellow election committee
> members, and the
> voters. (It feels odd in a wiki context to actually write
> "voters" rather
> than ! voters. :) )
>
> I have seen some references in this and other threads to people
> wanting to
> discuss some possible changes to the way in which future
> elections are run,
> based on lessons that we have learned this time. This year, the
> Election
> Committee members were selected only a few days before the election
> timetable began, which meant that we had comparatively little
> time to
> discuss the proposed election procedures before we had to get the
> process
> moving. Despite this, my opinion is that everything went reasonably
> smoothly.
>
> Nonetheless, and I emphasize that I am speaking here only for
> myself and not
> officially on behalf of the Election Committee or anyone else, I
> think it
> would definitely be a good practice to plan for future elections
> much
> further in advance than we were able to do this year.
>
> I suggest that there be an on-wiki dialog regarding some of the
> matters
> concerning the Board Election procedures that contributors might
> (or might
> not) want to change for future years. The purpose would not be
> to have an
> endless debate for the sake of debating, but to address concrete and
> specific changes that might (or might not) be desirable, with a
> goal of
> setting the parameters for future elections in advance. The
> topics to be
> addressed could include (but not be limited to):
>
> (1) Voting system (approval voting versus other systems)
> (2) Candidate and voter qualifications and the endorsement system
> (3) Election publicity and communications
>
> Although we have not decided this as a committee, I believe that
> most of
> this year's Election Committee members would be willing to set up
> pages on
> Meta and help to guide this discussion, if there is consensus
> here on the
> list or elsewhere that this should be done. It is unlikely that
> anything
> much would happen until after Wikimania, but I think that it
> might be a good
> idea to get any discussion going relatively soon while whatever
> issues arose
> during this year's election are fresh in people's mind. If we
> table the
> discussion for too long, then I suspect it will stay tabled until
> the 2008
> elections are just around the corner and next year's committee
> will find
> itself in the same position that this year's did.
>
> Everyone's thoughts will be appreciated.
>
> Newyorkbrad
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