[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 95, Issue 3

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 19:17, Joan Goma <jrgoma at gmail.com> wrote:
> The situation was absolutely crazy. Some candidates had access to chapters
> wiki and could have feedback from the answers of other candidates while
> others like the one I nominated didn't. One candidate, Phoebe, published
> her answers which honors her and the others not. When the election process
> finished nobody told the candidates without access to internal wiki the
> results. Still today nobody has told anything to them.  And ofcourse I
> don't know the answers to my questions.

As the most of those issues depend on MediaWiki features and
moderators, it will be changed this time. No candidate would have
access to the list and wiki, and candidates will have as equal as
possible treatment (it's not possible to control what would 100-150
members of chapters list share with whom).

> Chapters would do a favor to themselves if they publish the candidatures,
> and keep questions to candidates and discussion publicly. Otherwise this is
> only creating division and suspiciousness among chapters and communities
> and among communities with chapters and communities without chapters.
>
> If someone want to have private conversations everybody has freedom of
> speach to talk to everybody trough private means. But WMF means belong to a
> common, free and open project and must not be transformed in a privative
> asset.
>
> I think that we must try to keep everything free and open by default. Only
> kept private when there are very strong reasons like legal requirements and
> this is not the case. It is ridiculous that we have gone to strike against
> SOPA and we are accepting to transform in privative the informations about
> a process that affects all the movement.

Agreed.