[Foundation-l] Frieda Brioschi resigns from the Wikimedia Board of Trustees

[oscar van dillen]

seeing now that the timing is actually between the first and third case you
mention, i understand your point.

thanks and grtz,
oscar

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Ral315 <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:06 PM, oscar van dillen <
> oscarvandillen at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > well, but i seem to recall a similar situation has occurred before?
> >
> > all the best,
> > oscar
>
>
> In July 2006, Angela Beesley resigned from her position.  Elections were
> held in September 2006, and the winner (Erik Möller) served out the rest of
> Angela's term, standing for re-election 8 months later.
>
> In October 2007, Michael Davis resigned.  His was not a community position,
> and he was effectively replaced by Domas Mituzas in February 2008.
>
> In December 2007, Erik Möller resigned.  His position was filled by the
> Board in February 2008; they chose Michael Snow, who had run in the
> previous
> Board elections and finished 25 votes (~0.6%) short of a seat.
>
> For a case like this, where elections will be held in June 2009 anyway, I
> don't mind the Board choosing either to temporarily fill the seat with a
> community member, or leave it vacant.  I think if someone were to resign
> just a few months into their term, an off-year election might be worth
> considering, but there's no reason to hurry into an election.  Precedent
> seems to be that if the term is close to expiring, it's merely filled
> (Erik's seat), but if the term has a year or so left, an off-year election
> has been held (Angela's seat)
>
> If we were to hold an election, it wouldn't give the new board member much
> time in their seat.  Looking at prior elections, the fastest we could
> conceivably get a new election completed by is probably mid-to-late
> November, with the winner being certified at the November/December meeting,
> and attending their first Board meeting in January 2009.
>
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