Although I'm pretty much a complete outsider to this process, and so my opinion may be discounted accordingly, this schedule for voting may be a little bit too expedited to be optimal. I'm especially concerned that only one week is allotted between the close of nominations and the close of voting. To the extent that a given member might wish to decide his or her vote through consultation with his or her chapter -- through internal discussion and consensus or a vote of the chapter board members or all the chapter's members, on a mailing list or at a chapter meeting -- I'm not sure one week is a long enough period in which all chapters can do so.
I understand there are reasons to want to move ahead expeditiously with this election, so I'm not calling for delay for the sake of delay; on the other hand, allowing a bit more time might be in order. Regards, Newyorkbrad On Sunday, February 24, 2013, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The schedule of election for the Chapters Association Council Chair > has been announced at > < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Elections/2013_Chair > > > The schedule is: > Nominations open midnight (UTC) on Monday 25 February 2013. > Nominations close midnight on Monday 4 March 2013 and voting is opened. > Voting closes midnight Monday 11 March 2013. > > Note that all 21 Council members will be eligible to vote, including > those that stand for election. In a heavily contested election, > expecting nominated candidates to refrain from voting would not be > workable. > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) [email protected] > Chapters Association Council Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA > Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
