[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
> cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote
>> concluding and the results being announced?
>>
>>
> First, I disagree that it's "ridiculously unrealistic".  Vote checking has
> already started and will continue throughout the polling.  Second, hindsight
> is 20/20.  I'll tell you that it's a balancing act... we've gotten it right
> a few times and we've gotten it wrong a few times.  It's been years since
> this  type of all-projects election was held for anything but a Board of
> Trustees election, and so, yeah, mistakes will be made.  But let's just wait
> and see on the timeframe, shall we?  No doubt an extension will have to
> happen, but.... what's the harm?  If we take a couple extra days to announce
> the results, who has been harmed?
>
>'

Months, not extra days, dude.


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