[Foundation-l] Design goals for the election and board selection process

[Ray Saintonge]

Kim Bruning wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>  
>
>>I think we mostly do not want the  
>>board of the foundation elected by casual users or the general  
>>public, but by "the core group of the community" .  
>>    
>>
>This could be a bit of a problem, since I have a feeling that
>several dedicated community members were excluded this time
>around. In the case of some well known community members
>(like for instance Jan-Bart iirc), this got corrected. But as
>always in such cases, it might be wise to investigate a
>little further, you know, just in case you're looking at the
>tip of an iceberg you didn't know was there.
>
>Perhaps a poll along the lines of "I feel like I'm a member
>of the community, but nevertheless was not allowed to vote"
>would be useful? 
>
I still believe that single log-in would go a long way to simplify some 
of these problems.  It would allow for aggregating qualifying edits 
across projects.

Someone who is not allowed to vote needs to raise the problem before 
it's too late to do anything about it.  If there are problems this is 
one place where anecdotal evidence is helpful.  I don't see what good a 
poll will do.

Ec