[Foundation-l] Future Board election procedures and guidelines

[GerardM]

Hoi,
I have supported and do support that employees and ex-employees should not
be eligible to stand for an elected function of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Ex-employees would become eligible again after a year.

This original point was made in an e-mail on the Foundation list by
Jan-Bart.

Thanks,
     GerardM

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-April/029433.html

On 7/14/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/14/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> There are currently seven seats.
>
> Three are held by appointed members (Jimbo, Michael, Jan-Bart) and
> their terms expire on 31 December this year. From that time onwards,
> appointed members are appointed for terms of one year.
>
> Three are held by elected members (Erik, Kat, Frieda) who were just
> elected yesterday, their terms last for two years, and will expire on
> 30 June 2009.
>
> The odd one out is Ant, who was an elected member whose term was due
> to end 30 June this year, but she was converted to an appointed member
> at the last board expansion with a term expiring on 30 June 2008. At
> that time, Ant's appointed seat will be replaced by an elected seat.
>
> I anticipate (based on the most recent Board expansion resolution)
> that the Board will expand to nine members at that time, adding
> another two community elected seats, with terms commencing 1 July
> 2008. This will result in two tranches of three elected members
> serving two year terms, beginning on 1 July, offset from each other by
> one year, and one tranche of appointed members with one year terms
> beginning on 1 January each year.
>
> --
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
>
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