[Foundation-l] Board elections email adding insult to injury
Philippe Beaudette
pbeaudette at wikimedia.org
Sun Aug 9 21:28:19 UTC 2009
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Al Tally wrote:
>> I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I
>> understand the
>> election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem
>> to be
>> going wrong this year?
>>
>>
> Things started going wrong when the election committee didn't organize
> itself in time. It knew more than a year ago that one or more
> individuals would need to be elected this year. It knew when
> Wikimania
> would be held (the latest dates ever). Because of the late Wikimania,
> following last year's timetable would have given them even more time
> to
> get it together than last year. It would not have needed to
> foreshorten
> the voting period. What it needs to do soon is to establish a firm
> timetable for future elections. With no elections scheduled for two
> years this should not be difficult. There is even plenty of time to
> do
> this earlier to be able to deal with any vacancy that may arise.
>
> Ec
I agree. I also suggest that the committee may be too small. There
are simply a huge number of details involved, and a larger committee
may be a better system.
Philippe
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