[Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

[J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov]

I am highly perplexed why we have a *public call for candidates* when the
rest of the process remains so private.

Alex



2012/2/1 Chessie <derby_pie at yahoo.com>

> Finding people not well known to editors: great.
> Finding people shy of 'grueling' public election process: ok...
>
> How does either lead to hiding candidate names? not doing background
> checks?
>
> Not publishing what kinds of questions are asked?
>
>
> As others said, this feels very strange.
>
>
> On 2/1/12, Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The hope was to attract/identify Board candidates who could add a lot of
> > value to the movement but who, for one reason or another, would NOT
> > typically be candidates in election.  That might be because they aren't
> > well-known in the editing community that decides elections.  Or as Thomas
> > mentions that they wouldn't be interested in going through the sometimes
> > grueling election process.
>
>
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