Thanks Natalia, that seems a good way to deal with this issue. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nataliia Tymkiv Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2016 11:18 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Board structure (Was: New Elections Committee)
Dear all,
As Christophe mentioned, BGC has discussed Board composition issue and decided that the best way is to wait for the results of the governance review. It was mentioned in the minutes, by the way [1]
If you have relevant arguments and think that it would make sense for other people to be aware of these arguments, please, *discuss them on Meta*. Mailing lists are not very useful for things like that. There is a talk page for this [2]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commit... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board...
Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:22 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
Pine has a point. We all know that the founder seat will go eventually. Whether it goes on the death or incapacity of the founder or earlier is a valid question for the board and the community. I'm not convinced that an elections committee should be deciding which posts to elect, and even if such governance issues do fall into its remit they should probably focus on how to elect first. So I'd say this should be a board decision.
As for the arguments to retain a founder seat for the next few decades, I suggest that those who favour such a position try to couch their arguments in terms of institutional knowledge, the value of an element of continuity and the positives for the community to still retain such a link with our founder. Then hope that the incidents of a few months ago fade in memory and are not repeated. There is a case to be made for a founder seat, but as with any argument in this community there are ways to argue respectfully and effectively, and there are arguments that undermine your cause and weaken your reputation.
WereSpielChequers
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:53:59 -0700 From: Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Elections Committee Message-ID: <CAF= dyJiVboVVoZNjXC-Uf7jSy54MWcCxYTva3CcqfpHCe_nnCw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi BGC,
I asked a question earlier in this thread which seems to have been overlooked. Is the BGC (or the Board as a whole) considering whether the Founder's seat will become an elected seat in the forseeable future?
Pine
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