[Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Michael Peel <michael.peel at wikimedia.org.uk
>> wrote:
>
>> On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would
>> encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted
>> approve/abstain/against. This could potentially be done by (for examples)
>> adding notes next to votes explaining reservations or key supporting
>> factors, or by making resolutions more focused (e.g. the fundraising
>> decision could have been split into four: principles, chapter payment
>> processing, four chapters, and additional chapters, which would have
>> provided more insight here).
>
>
> Agreed. I'm really glad to see the individual voting on those resolution. I
> would love to know more about the mind-set as well, it seems like a
> reasonable request.
>
> This helps explain the current mentality and stances within the board. I
> had a couple of wrong impressions about the current trustee stances before
> seeing the individual votes, this helps clear things up. My thanks to Sj
> for being alone in opposing this, now I'm curious about the abstains; back
> to conjecturing, I suppose.

I expect that the minutes will explain the varied positions of the
board.  If not, then the board should put in place procedures to
prevent abuse of abstains.

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John Vandenberg