[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

[Philippe Beaudette]

It's really truly not going to be a matter of weeks, I can assure you of
that.

It may be, at best, a couple of extra days, but we've all been vote checking
as we go.  I don't anticipate much delay if any.

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Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

415-839-6885, x 6643

philippe at wikimedia.org



On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the time of the License Commitee with the vote we had te results
> also very fast...
>
> Dude... Its all possible when they check all the votes made on day 1
> on day 2 etc etc... And the system is very simple to work with.
>
> Best,
>
> Huib
>
>
> 2011/8/21, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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> Verzonden vanaf mijn mobiele apparaat
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Huib Laurens
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>
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