[Offline-l] Re: WMF board elections are back

2022-05-19 Thread Florence Devouard 
I think it is an excellent idea for any member of this group to publicly 
stand for one candidate or another, and provide his or her arguments for 
the support. It will help both during the Affiliate vote process AND 
during the community vote process, to gather a better understanding of 
each person.
So go for it ! (@ Stephane... Federico... James and all others who wants 
to give their opinion on one or several candidates).


Cheers

Flo


Le 19/05/2022 à 09:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon a écrit :

Hi everyone,

Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and 
there are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).


We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta 
 (legoktm), who has been 
a long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand 
corrected but he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and 
volunteered top code).  Needless to say (but I am still saying it), 
Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we 
started sending them out.


I encourage you to read his bio/user page 
 - Kunal is not just a 
coder, but has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF 
last December, so my take here is that we would have a trustee here 
that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands the WMF and 3. Understands 
/us/ (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.


My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected 
soapbox campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided 
about whom to support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.


Cheers,
Stephane


Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard  a écrit :

Dear all,


It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia 
Foundation Board of Trustees.


This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want 
to go look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022


However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you 
should know...


1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two 
step-process


Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the 
initial list of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all 
votes pooled together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that 
short list.


In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates


2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates

They have provided initial statements.

3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare 
a process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we 
will sort ONE name.



4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should 
they be interested to, on this mailing list




Cheers


Florence
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[Offline-l] Re: WMF board elections are back

2022-05-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo) 
I agree that Legoktm is an obvious choice for the Offline user group's 
vote, even though I personally like other candidates too.


There's still value in a discourse with other candidates, so I 
appreciate the proposal and work by Florence and Sam all the more.


Federico

Il 19/05/22 10:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon ha scritto:

Hi everyone,

Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there 
are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).

We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta 
 (legoktm), who has been a 
long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he 
also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code).  Needless 
to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded 
chocolates ever since we started sending them out.

I encourage you to read his bio/user page 
 - Kunal is not just a coder, but 
has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take 
here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands 
the WMF and 3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.

My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox 
campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to 
support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.

Cheers,
Stephane


Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard  a écrit :

Dear all,


It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation 
Board of Trustees.

This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look 
in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022

However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...

1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process

Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of 
candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a 
short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.

In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates


2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates
They have provided initial statements.

3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process 
so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.


4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be 
interested to, on this mailing list

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[Offline-l] Re: WMF board elections are back

2022-05-19 Thread Stephane Coillet-Matillon 
Hi everyone,

Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there 
are very fine people (better that than the opposite!). 

We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta 
 (legoktm), who has been a 
long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but 
he also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code).  
Needless to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our 
Kiwix-branded chocolates ever since we started sending them out.  

I encourage you to read his bio/user page 
 - Kunal is not just a coder, but 
has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my 
take here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. 
Understands the WMF and 3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot 
boxes to tick.

My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox 
campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to 
support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.

Cheers,
Stephane

> Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard  a écrit :
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia 
> Foundation Board of Trustees.
> 
> This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go 
> look in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on : 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
> 
> However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should 
> know...
> 
> 1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
> 
> Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list 
> of candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled 
> together, a short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
> Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
> 
> In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
> 
> 
> 2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here : 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates
> They have provided initial statements.
> 
> 3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a 
> process so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort 
> ONE name.
> 
> 
> 4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be 
> interested to, on this mailing list
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Florence
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