Hello Kropotkine_113, since I am on the NomCom I will answer your questions.
Kropotkine_113 wrote: > Has Matt Halprin been designated to the Board by the Nominating Commitee > (NOMCOM) ? This is explicity required if I read correctly this page : > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement_Q%26A > This is not correct. Essentially the NomCom should nominate the board members, and should do this at the end of last year. But it didn't worked out. There are multiple reasons for that. Basically that was the first time that we worked how it can work and how not. We are simply lack of experience. So, it didn't work out last winter. We should have four nominated candidates appointed to the board by the begin of 2009 but we had only two by that time. According to the bylaw of the Foundation IV 6 the board can appoint trustees because of vacancy, this is the case. So Matt was not on the NomCom list. But we had informed the NomCom though about this process. After Wikimania the NomCom would resume its work and make suggestions for next year. So Matt would be included by NomCom in its list that it would suggest to the board by December or would drop out. > Does he fulfill the Nomitanig Commitee selection criterion : "Membership > in the Wikimedia community" ? > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nominating_Committee/Selection_criteria#General_needed_traits > > Where is the list of the other candidates designated by the NOMCOM ? > The list of NomCom is not published because of privacy. It is a very simple thing. If someone is suggested on the list and he is not selected or he declined, in either cases can it can both be embarassing for the person as well as for the Foundation. So the NomCom had decided on its first meeting that the list would not be published and should be kept confidential. This would also be the case for the coming years. > Could we see the discussions and the recommandations of the nominating > commitee ? > Because of the nature of the confidenciality of the NomCom the discussion are kept internal. But there are meeting minutes and the mailing list is archived. The NomCom published a status report which is published here: [1] > Is it possible to know which member of the Board of Trustees agree this > appointment ? Or at least juste the repartition support/against in the > Board ? > The discussion about this assignment and the voting about it would be published as one of the topics of the August board meeting. I want to respect the secratory offices role here and don't make any announcements prior of Kat's publication of the minutes. What I can say at this point is that I voted for Matt for the following reasons: First of all Jimmy and Michael interviewed and talked with Matt. Both of them had recommended him as a valuable plus for the board. The board had interviewed Matt in Buenos Aires, had discussed all the problems that may be raised or values that may be added. According of all these evaluations I feel no problem as voting for him. We worked with Matt in Buenos Aires during our strategic planning session and I feel that our positive evaluation was confirmed as Matt had inputted a lot of insights out of his experiences about procedures and measurements of success. Ting [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nominating_committee _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
