[Foundation-l] 2011 elections - low turnout

[phoebe ayers]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open
>>> endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was
>>> dropped.
>>
>>> -- Phoebe
>>>
>>
>> Don't take this personally, but who is "we" and who are the "cabals"? Who
>> is in them and what is their agenda?
>>
>> Fred
>
> We = the foundation, by way of the election committee: see
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en
>
> I said "cabal-ism", not specific cabals :) Meaning that endorsements
> didn't seem that effective because everyone just endorsed the people
> they knew.
> But I wasn't on the election committee, and I'm writing this from
> memory without looking at the lists archives etc, so hopefully someone
> else has a more clear recollection of why it was tried and dropped can
> say for sure.

grammar fail. How about:
"Hopefully someone else who has a clearer recollection of why
endorsements were tried, but dropped, can
say for sure."