[Foundation-l] Official Election Notice

[Casey Brown]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Philippe Beaudette
>  <philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  For more information on the voting and candidate requirements, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008.
>
>  I see the edit requirements for candidates are not only still present,
>  but more onerous this year. Why were these not only kept, but
>  increased? With these requirements Mike Godwin, as an example, is
>  ineligible to be elected to the Board, as are quite a few members of
>  the advisory board. Surely it should be for the community to decide
>  what experience they consider relevant in choosing who they elect.
>

But that makes complete sense, doesn't it?  The seat for this
elections is a *community* one.  Even though the Advisory Board and
Mike do great work for the projects, they aren't really fit for the
*community* position -- are they?

I could definitely see a problem if the special exceptions weren't
listed for the voters
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008#Requirements>.

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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