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

philippe philippe.wiki at gmail.com
Wed May 27 16:32:13 UTC 2009


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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