[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[GerardM]

Hoi,
What you describe is really hypothetical. The WMF does not have the funds to
hire all the trouble makers that we know off. We do not have the funds to
hire the people to fill the positions that we have. So the scenario is not
only hypothetical it is also unrealistic and as such it is even irrelevant.
Even our policy of "assume good faith" argues that when your experience with
an individual tells you so, you should not get him in a position to do more
evil.

What we need in our Wikimedia Foundation is a good working relation between
board and employees. Most of the board members are chosen from our
community. There is in my opinion a need for a firewall between the
organisation of the Foundation and it projects in the same way as there is a
firewall between a chapter and the projects. By denying employees to stand
as board member, you prevent that this firewall is undermined. This is true
to a lesser extend for ex-employees and it disappears over time.