[Foundation-l] CentralNotice and extending the Board Nomination period

[Philippe Beaudette]

Robert,

Thank you for your concern.  I'll take this to the Board elections  
committee.

Philippe



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On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:06 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:

> CentralNotice scripts live on the image file server.  As some of you
> may know, that server has been having serious performance problems
> recently.  One of the steps taken early on to reduce load while people
> work on fixing the problem was to disable CentralNotice on all wikis
> (save Meta).
>
> As a result, the "Candidates are currently being accepted for the
> Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election" message that started on the 7th
> has not been visible anywhere except Meta since the 11th.  I don't
> know whether the server will be fixed before the nomination period was
> supposed to end on the 20th.  Assuming it is not fixed, the planned
> two weeks of candidate solicitations will have been reduced to less
> than five days.  (This also explains why there have been no new
> candidate statements since early on the 12th.)
>
> In my opinion, that is simply not adequate.
>
> I know it would throw a giant monkey wrench in other plans, but I want
> to raise the possiblity that the technical problems with the site
> notice should justify pushing back the rest of the Board election
> timeline.  The Board of Trustees is one of Wikimedia's most important
> institutions, and I don't think this is something we can justify
> rushing through.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>
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