[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Michael Snow]

Paul Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>   
>> We know this is all pretty complicated and hard to follow, so we asked
>> Jay Walsh, head of communications, to put together an FAQ and a "board
>> makeup" graphic, intended to help make it more understandable. He'll be
>> posting both on the Foundation wiki in about an hour.
>>     
> Interesting changes. Do these changes affect the amount of seats available
> for election in the upcoming elections? I was under the impression there
> were three, but the graphics appear to indicate only a single seat is up for
> election this year.
>   
There are still three elected seats, but only one up for election this 
year. We couldn't shorten Kat and Frieda's terms when they were already 
elected to serve until July 2009, so to allow the chapters to make their 
selections it needed to be the seats Domas and I currently occupy.

For answers to additional questions relating to this announcement, 
please look at the FAQ:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A
Please take a look, although we'll certainly respond to any issues that 
aren't covered there.

--Michael Snow