[Foundation-l] Design goals for the election and board selection process

[Philippe Beaudette]

I would also say that there were a VERY few cases raised to the Election Committee about someone who felt like they should have been able to vote and weren't.  Those few that were (ie, Jan-Bart, some developers with shell access that don't actually edit on-wiki, etc) got a hearing and I think most everyone was pleased with the outcome.

All ya gotta do is ask, folks... we'd have listened, I promise.

Philippe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ray Saintonge 
  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Design goals for the election and board selection process


  Kim Bruning wrote:

  >On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
  >  
  >
  >>I think we mostly do not want the  
  >>board of the foundation elected by casual users or the general  
  >>public, but by "the core group of the community" .  
  >>    
  >>
  >This could be a bit of a problem, since I have a feeling that
  >several dedicated community members were excluded this time
  >around. In the case of some well known community members
  >(like for instance Jan-Bart iirc), this got corrected. But as
  >always in such cases, it might be wise to investigate a
  >little further, you know, just in case you're looking at the
  >tip of an iceberg you didn't know was there.
  >
  >Perhaps a poll along the lines of "I feel like I'm a member
  >of the community, but nevertheless was not allowed to vote"
  >would be useful? 
  >
  I still believe that single log-in would go a long way to simplify some 
  of these problems.  It would allow for aggregating qualifying edits 
  across projects.

  Someone who is not allowed to vote needs to raise the problem before 
  it's too late to do anything about it.  If there are problems this is 
  one place where anecdotal evidence is helpful.  I don't see what good a 
  poll will do.

  Ec


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