Hey, After reading all the emails so far, I more and more thinking that the correct way will be to remove the specific WMF criteria - allowing every community member to participate in the election by voting using his *personal* (not staff/dev account), what give the same equal power to staff from the WMF and chapters, such as every personal volunteer in the Wikimedia community have.
I hope next year election committee will take it in consideration. *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 October 2014 00:57, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > IMO the election must be run by a third party, as happened prior to > > 2013, by SPI. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_in_the_Public_Interest > > Adequate staff support from WMF is also needed. > > > > > > The elections have never, even once, been run by a third party. For two > board elections, the voting was hosted off-site, although vote verification > was still carrried out by internal volunteers (the election committee); on > the last board election, to avoid the problems that arose with off-site > hosting, the election key (which acts as a kill-switch for the election) > was held by a third party. All the rest of the activities were done > on-site by volunteers with some help from staff. All of the organization > except for the hosting of votes has always been done internally. > > In my own post-mortem after the last election, I too suggested that the > elections be hosted off-site; however, my reasoning was that it would be > difficult to justify the expense of redeveloping SecurePoll sufficiently to > make it straightforward enough to use given that it's only used once or > twice a year. However, work has been happening on SecurePoll pretty much > since the last election, so there's no benefit to hosting elsewhere, > especially given the difficulties that were encountered in the past. > > External election hosting is a fairly big ticket item if it is being done > well (and it would probably involve non-free software and as much if not > more work on the part of WMF staff), although I do understand that there > are certain advantages to going outside or more precisely not hosting on > our own servers. > > Risker/Anne > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
