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

[Itzik Edri]

Ting, Risker,

1. To share thoughts and feedback about the elections, you don't must to be
volunteer  in the committee.

2. I indeed thought about it only when I saw the centralnotice and read the
voting requirement, I may needed to raise it before. But it's still doesn't
mean we need to ignore from this issue

Itzik


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Post_mortem>
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