I don't see why employees (no diff whether it's about WMF or affiliates) who are not also volunteers should have the vote right. It's up to Wikimedia movement to chose it's lead. The non-volunteering employees are outsiders who are just hired to do some stuff for us since we tend to be lazy. If they want to influence community's way they must become part of the community. They have a choice of who's their boss - if they don't like boss in WMF they could go look for another job. --Base
22.04.2015, 18:10, "Leigh Thelmadatter" <osama...@hotmail.com>: > +1 >> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:51:25 -0400 >> From: aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com >> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections >> >> My two cents: no, no, no, absolutely not, by all means no, never. >> >> I am strongly, strongly, strongly opposed to such a move. The chapters >> already elect two members of the Board, and that's quite enough. When it >> comes to matters concerning strategic direction chapters are the movement >> equivalent of a political interest group. The Board is the entity >> ultimately responsible for the funding reigns, and I strongly suspect that >> such a move, *especially given the weakness of community response in >> elections*, would immediately result in an influx of "chapter junkies" who >> will vote as a nearly-united political bloc for whatever candidate promises >> a freer flow of money. >> >> The ramifications would be immediate. This is absolutely the wrongest >> possible direction to go in. > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
