[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Florence Devouard]

Next elections are in june/july 2008.
In december, the seats of Jimbo, Jan-Bart and Michael are up to renewal. 
These are appointed seats.

Ant


Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> 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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