Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-22 Thread Joan Goma
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:52:11 +0200 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 79, Issue 65 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID:

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you Phoebe for changing the subject... On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Two board members (20% of the board) are elected by a tiny number of representatives of chapters (the chapter representative election process is very opaque). I can't find any

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi Risker! On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: snipping changing the subject line because I think we've ranged pretty far away from the original subject of moderation As the person who was selected via this process I feel the need to jump in :) I

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:52 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Three board positions (30% of the board) are elected by the community at large. They are the only members of the board who have a direct responsibility to the community, and there is no method for the community to

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: .. Others can speak to this better than I can, but part of the rationale behind chapter-selected seats was to help even out representation -- to make sure that the elected seats on the board were not entirely dominated

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
John Vandenberg, 21/10/2010 12:30: If history is anything to go by, a single issue candidate is the best chance that WMF will adjust its strategy to devote more energy towards supporting the sister projects. Have we ever had a single-issue trustee who achieved something? I'd hoped that the

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-21 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:30 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: snip While I am a man with many issues, I'm sure it won't surprise anyone to learn that I am a single issue voter. ;-) How much has the candidate done, on the ground, for the projects other than Wikipedia? Over the

[Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-20 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 October 2010 16:47, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: The board defines both community and chapter. I'm not sure that the board does

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-20 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian) On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 October 2010 16:47, Muhammad Yahia shipmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: The board defines both

Re: [Foundation-l] chapter board seats (was: Greg Kohs and Peter Damian)

2010-10-20 Thread Risker
snipping changing the subject line because I think we've ranged pretty far away from the original subject of moderation As the person who was selected via this process I feel the need to jump in :) I agree that the chapter selection process is not very transparent, or very clear (to