[Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

[Béria Lima]

Like I said Stuart, we didn't changed the process.
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On 1 February 2012 13:23, Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
> > Last time, the chapters decided to keep the process very confidential
> > in order to allow free and frank discussion of the candidates. It was
> > felt that it would be good to have confidential discussions, in
> > contrast to the public ones that are associated with the community
> > elected seats, because that might attract different candidates than
> > would stand for the community elected seats (ie. candidates that don't
> > want lots of discussion about every good and bad quality they have
> > happening in public - the selection process can involve a much greater
> > intrusion on privacy than actually serving on the board does).
>
> FWIW, as I think back to Board conversations in 2008 (it was my first
> meeting), Thomas's comments are quite close to Board's rationale in
> creating the chapter seats in 2008.
>
> The hope was to attract/identify Board candidates who could add a lot of
> value to the movement but who, for one reason or another, would NOT
> typically be candidates in election.  That might be because they aren't
> well-known in the editing community that decides elections.  Or as Thomas
> mentions that they wouldn't be interested in going through the sometimes
> grueling election process.
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