[Foundation-l] Election Results

[Steven Walling]

While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the
election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia.
With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of
the community, I fear this endorsement of seemingly "old guard" Wikimedians
as our Board representation will support claims about the community becoming
unfriendly to new participants.
Thoughts? Am I being too nervous, or do others see that potential too?

If I'm not alone, perhaps any official announcement about the elections
(i.e. on the Wikimedia blog and in press releases) should address this, even
if only tacitly.

Steven Walling

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Philippe
> Beaudette<pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the
> > board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the
> > candidates ranked as follows:
> >
> >  Final ranking
> >
> > 1       Ting Chen (Wing)
> > 2       Kat Walsh (mindspillage)
> > 3       Samuel Klein (Sj)
> > 4       Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
> > 5       Domas Mituzas (Midom)
> > 6       Thomas Braun (Redlinux)
> > 7       Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro)
> > 8       Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist)
> > 9       Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester)
> > 10      José Gustavo Góngora (Góngora)
> > 11      Brady Brim-DeForest (Bradybd)
> > 12      Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse)
> > 13      Adam Koenigsberg (CastAStone)
> > 14      Ralph Potdevin (Aruspice)
> > 15      Beauford Anton Stenberg (B9 hummingbird hovering)
> > 16      Gregory Kohs (Thekohser)
> > 17      Kevin Riley O'Keeffe (KevinOKeeffe)
> > 18      Relly Komaruzaman (Relly Komaruzaman)
> >
> > A full pairwise defeats table will be posted shortly.
> >
> > These names have been respectfully submitted to the Board, which has
> > moved to seat the top three candidates.
> >
> > The Committee wishes to thank all those who submitted themselves as
> > candidates.  It was a broad and diverse field this year.  We also wish
> > to recognize the many volunteers that helped with this process.  The
> > committee extends its gratitude and thanks to them
> >
> >
> > For the committee,
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> Congrats to the winners!
>
> -Chad
>
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