Congratulations and welcome back Maria! best, Subha
On 1/30/2016 1:44 PM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) wrote: > Congratulations Maria! > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Anthony Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Welcome back Maria. Recent events have shed a much-needed bright light on >> the board, and it would have been good to hold a community election in that >> light. We do have a limited volunteer capacity to manage elections, though, >> and I can understand the desire not to impose too much on volunteer >> goodwill. A shame, though. We all might have learned something from the >> process. >> >> On Saturday, 30 January 2016, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So, why not make the best of both worlds? >>> >>> If you need another Trustee immediately, well...I don't really think >> that, >>> you have a quorum without it. And an appointed trustee who lost a >> community >>> election is not a community elected trustee. It is insulting to say that >>> they are. James Heilman was the community trustee, and we still have been >>> given absolutely no specifics about his removal, just vague handwaves at >>> "lack of trust". Why, specifically, did he lose your trust? What, >>> specifically, did he supposedly do wrong? >>> >>> But if the seat absolutely must be filled, make this an interim >> appointment >>> until a new election is complete, and hold such an election as soon as >>> possible. A new election is necessary, and not having one is >> unacceptable. >>> A lot has changed since the last one, and the individual you appointed >> did >>> not pass the previous election. >>> >>> Or in other words: This is still not acceptable. >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Adam Wight <[email protected] >>> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:09 PM Tomasz W. Kozlowski < >>>> [email protected] <javascript:;>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Considering the results of the 2015 May Board elections, I think it >>> fair >>>>> to say that María’s appointment to the Board lacks any community >>>> legitimacy >>>>> whatsoever. >>>> >>>> I have to disagree with this statement. Please see my analysis of the >>>> election, where I show that Sefidari would have been the top-ranked >>>> candidate if we had counted votes equally.[1] The "oppose" votes you >>> refer >>>> to are not serving the purpose you imagine they are, of weeding out >>>> controversial candidates. >>>> >>>> Yet another hugely surprising decision from the Board, I’m sorry to >> say. >>>> That's another story... It would be nice to read the minutes of this >>> Board >>>> discussion, to see what alternatives were raised and how they were >>>> evaluated. It would be even nicer if the broader community had been >>>> directly involved in deciding how to backfill their hatcheted >>>> representative's seat. >>>> >>>> -Adam >>>> [[mw:User:Adamw]] >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Adamw/Draft/Board_Election_analysis >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>>> New messages to: [email protected] <javascript:;> >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>> <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> >>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> New messages to: [email protected] <javascript:;> >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> >>> ?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> -- >> Anthony Cole >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
