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

[Ting Chen]

Hello dear all,

I would also like to ask everyone who has made their thoughts on the 
election to take part on the election committee themselves the next time.

Unfortunately when I made the call for volunteer earlier this year not 
very many people responded.

Greetings
Ting

Am 4/30/2013 12:57 AM, schrieb Risker:
> On 29 April 2013 18:48, Asaf Bartov <abartov at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Itzik Edri <itzik at infra.co.il> wrote:
>>
>>> 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"..
>>>
>> That's a very good point, and I think the chapter board members and staff
>> definitely _should_ be given a voice _at least_ in the FDC elections.  I
>> leave it to the Elections Committee to propose solutions.
>>
>>
>>
> The Elections Committee posted its plan weeks before the election started,
> with hardly any commentary at all; it is only now, after candidates may
> start entering the race, that people are complaining that we've failed to
> give the "right" people a vote (or alternately, that we've given too many
> people a vote).  There is almost no variation between the voter eligibility
> this year and in the previous election; the only relevant changes are dates
> for eligibility and the developer commit process (which was changed because
> the Engineering Department changed the way that commits were done).
>
> I suggest that those who would like to see changes at the next election
> post on the election post mortem page[1] now, so that these ideas aren't
> lost to time.
>
> Risker (Election Committee Member)
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Post_mortem
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