[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2007/7/17, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:

> Given that Wikipedia grows rapidly, we need people who have a positive view
> on what can be done. This means that people who are blatantly negative about
> the organisation should not stand for election. When like Danny you leave
> the employment in a huff and insists on running with the slogan: "Quis
> custodiet ipsos custodes?" it does not demonstrate a positive towards our
> organisation. Given the rather public outing of what are in his mind dirty
> linen, the negative attitude is underlined even more.
>

Well - in fact you can be not happy with the current state of
organization or even think that current Board is leading the entire
organization in wrong direction - but still be devoted to the general
idea of Wikimedia projects. If you'd like let to candidate only people
who always say  they are happy with current Board's direction and
decisions you are about to get rid of all the people with different
point of view, who are brave enough to communicate it... Criticism of
what the current Board is doing is IMHO very important - and should
not be called automatically "negative attitude".


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