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

[philippe]

I'm certainly not empowered to say yes or no to that on my own, but  
I'll carry it back to the committee and see what the feeling there  
is. :-)

Philippe


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philippe


On May 27, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___________________
>> 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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