Hi Just to make sure we don't jump to the wrong conclusion.
This is my fourth Board election. Every time we have relied on Software in the Public Interest (http://www.spi-inc.org/) do be the trusted third party. Every time they have been extremely fast and flexible in their volunteer services towards us. I am extremely grateful for all that they have done. But when a call for volunteers is made, and their timezones differ from each other, the office (and tech support) and SPI-Inc, that complicates matters when several checks are needed to confirm and verify. Jan-Bart On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Joe Gazz84 wrote: > On 6/17/2011 9:31 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> As the Board Liaison for the election committee I would like to ask for a >> little more patience on their behalf. >> >> Our chosen election system has several checks and balances and it does not >> help matters that we are making use of an independent third party and are >> spread out across several time zones. >> >> Thank you Amir, as you stated: they are volunteers too. And I recall it was >> very hard trying to get people to volunteer for this rather thankless job >> (please feel free to volunteer for the next elections) >> >> That being said, I think you will not have to wait much longer. The election >> committee is taking the final steps towards publishing the results. >> >> Jan-Bart de Vreede >> Board Liaison Election Committee >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Thank you for this update, we appreciate it. I am disappointed that > these potential problems weren't thought about previously when choosing > to use a third-party. In the future, I think we need to come up with a > list of potential problems to prevent situations like this. > > -- > Joe Gazz84 - Wikimedia Wikis > Home Wiki: ENWP (Retired) > Meta > Commons > If you need to contact me, please use "reply" and make sure the email goes to > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
