[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)]

Are the seats whose terms expire in December 2007 held by elective or
appointive members?  Has the Board decided how these three seats will be
filled next time around?

Newyorkbrad


On 7/13/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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