[Foundation-l] Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election

[Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)]

Would a 10-day period (including two weekends) be possible?

Newyorkbrad

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM, philippe <philippe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, OK, sorry for my misunderstanding of the question.
>
> Indeed, we had that same discussion amongst the committee.  In the
> end, the vote timing is driven by Wikimania and the need to purchase
> tickets for the new trustees-designate to get there (at a reasonable
> price, which usually requires a 14 day advance purchase), while also
> taking the time to get the translations done as completely as possible.
>
> In addition, it was our feeling that last year that the first week had
> - by far - the vast majority of the votes cast with relatively little
> movement afterwards.
>
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> philippe
>
> On May 27, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Angela wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, philippe <philippe.wiki at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> The reason not to have it in two weeks is that it generally takes
> >> longer than that to effectively translate both the policy pages and
> >> the candidate statements to allow as many people to participate in as
> >> many languages as possible.  Two weeks would almost guarantee a
> >> primarily english-centric election.  In the past we've had no problem
> >> getting the votes counted/confirmed in two days; we did it last year.
> >
> > I believe the suggestion is to have the vote lasting for 2 weeks, not
> > starting in 2 weeks from now.
> >
> > Voting last for 3 weeks in past elections.
> >
> > Angela
> >
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