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

Chessie derby_pie at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 1 19:08:02 UTC 2012


Finding people not well known to editors: great.
Finding people shy of 'grueling' public election process: ok...

How does either lead to hiding candidate names? not doing background checks?  

Not publishing what kinds of questions are asked?


As others said, this feels very strange.


On 2/1/12, Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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