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

[Robert Rohde]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, 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.

You mileage may vary of course, but the Licensing Update vote had
roughly 60%, 25% and 15% of votes cast during each of its three weeks.
 I'd hate to have ignored 40% by stopping after only 1 week.

-Robert Rohde