Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 22:44 +0200, Ting Chen a écrit : > Hello Kropotkine_113,
Hello Ting, > 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. Ok. It would be interesting to explain that more explicitely somewhere (on meta or on wikimediafoundation's wiki) because It was not so obvious (or I didn't understain...) when I read the Q&A page I mentionned. > > 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 first meeting that the list would not be published and should be kept 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. Ok. > > 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] Ok. > > 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. Thank you for all these explanations and for wasting your time to answer. > Ting Kropotkine_113 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
