[Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

[Itzik Edri]

I agree. We should limit it to only community members, or to give equal
right to everyone.

Asaf, you right, but we are talking also about the FDC elections. a
processes where we are not granting chapters and others organizations the
right to vote but granting to the WMF. Giving only WMF staff, and not
chapters staff the right to vote in community process, it's like saying the
first are part of the community, but the second are not. I don't even want
to refer to the sensitive issue of the staff voting for their "bosses"..


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election
> for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer
> community. Presumably that would include most members of most
> organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid
> workers who also participate as volunteers.
>
> Most chapter members and representatives participate not only in the
> community elections but also in the selection of chapter-nominated
> board seats. It doesn't seem like chapters as a group are at all
> disenfranchised.
>
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