[Foundation-l] Board elections

[Florence Devouard]

Nathan wrote:
> Is there an element of reinventing the wheel involved in this process? It
> seems like much of the infrastructure set up last year and in prior years
> could be reused, even in terms of rules and processes etc., as long as these
> haven't been discredited or improved upon since. Shouldn't the gross volume
> of effort required in 2008 be less than that needed in 2007? Or am I totally
> missing something?


Some points to address

1. Number of seats (must be clarified at next board meeting)

2. third party hosting and administering a reliable voting system

3. Revision of criteria for voters (not edit-count or at least not-only 
edit count -  how to address developers of mediawiki, staff members etc...)

4. Voting system

5. Perhaps (or not) good statistics to evaluate the voting process 
afterwards (what sysops voted versus regular editors. What english voted 
versus french etc...). I am not favorable to this myself, but I heard it 
mentionned several times

6. Pre-vote to eliminate trolling candidate

Ant