[Foundation-l] Board elections

[Stephen Bain]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:45 AM, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org> wrote:
>
> It seems quite early to start talking about future board elections, but
> members of the previous election committee have expressed the
> recommandation that more time would be the key for 2008 board elections.

It's certainly not too early; many of the problems last year were
simply the result of the election committee running out of time to do
things.

Some issues that we can start thinking about now include:

* translations - we can start identifying people now who will be
willing to help translate the election pages - last year there were
fewer translations completed than in previous years

* third-party involvement - will we invite SPI or another third-party
to help conduct the election again?

* changes to process - now is a good time to have discussions among
the Wikimedia community about the mechanics of the election process,
while there is plenty of time to implement changes

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com