[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Dan Rosenthal]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have elections coming up again in  
December 2007?
-Dan

On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

> I agree with Brad, endorse his suggestion, and am pleased to help  
> with this discussion any way that I can.
>
> Philippe
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)
>   To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>   Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:32 PM
>   Subject: [Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and  
> guidelines
>
>
>   Let me add my congratulations to the successful candidates in the  
> Board
>   election that just concluded, and my thanks to everyone who  
> participated --
>   including all the candidates, my fellow election committee  
> members, and the
>   voters.  (It feels odd in a wiki context to actually write  
> "voters" rather
>   than ! voters. :) )
>
>   I have seen some references in this and other threads to people  
> wanting to
>   discuss some possible changes to the way in which future  
> elections are run,
>   based on lessons that we have learned this time.  This year, the  
> Election
>   Committee members were selected only a few days before the election
>   timetable began, which meant that we had comparatively little  
> time to
>   discuss the proposed election procedures before we had to get the  
> process
>   moving.  Despite this, my opinion is that everything went reasonably
>   smoothly.
>
>   Nonetheless, and I emphasize that I am speaking here only for  
> myself and not
>   officially on behalf of the Election Committee or anyone else, I  
> think it
>   would definitely be a good practice to plan for future elections  
> much
>   further in advance than we were able to do this year.
>
>   I suggest that there be an on-wiki dialog regarding some of the  
> matters
>   concerning the Board Election procedures that contributors might  
> (or might
>   not) want to change for future years.  The purpose would not be  
> to have an
>   endless debate for the sake of debating, but to address concrete and
>   specific changes that might (or might not) be desirable, with a  
> goal of
>   setting the parameters for future elections in advance.  The  
> topics to be
>   addressed could include (but not be limited to):
>
>   (1) Voting system (approval voting versus other systems)
>   (2) Candidate and voter qualifications and the endorsement system
>   (3) Election publicity and communications
>
>   Although we have not decided this as a committee, I believe that  
> most of
>   this year's Election Committee members would be willing to set up  
> pages on
>   Meta and help to guide this discussion, if there is consensus  
> here on the
>   list or elsewhere that this should be done.  It is unlikely that  
> anything
>   much would happen until after Wikimania, but I think that it  
> might be a good
>   idea to get any discussion going relatively soon while whatever  
> issues arose
>   during this year's election are fresh in people's mind.  If we  
> table the
>   discussion for too long, then I suspect it will stay tabled until  
> the 2008
>   elections are just around the corner and next year's committee  
> will find
>   itself in the same position that this year's did.
>
>   Everyone's thoughts will be appreciated.
>
>   Newyorkbrad
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