Establish alternates who are non-voting members but are in the wings waiting to fill vacancies. It’s a win-win.
Betty (Atsme) > On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:02 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Two community elected members every 1.5 years would be a good. Three could > than be elected if someone steps down. > > James > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I forgot to add that one of the benefits of having elections scheduled >> every year is that if a community-elected member departs from the board in >> the first year of their term, then it's simple to have another seat elected >> in the next cycle to fill the remainder of that term.. >> >> Pine >> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm glad we're thinking about how to improve Board elections, including >>> about possible screening for COI issues early in the election process. >>> >>> Thinking also about Board composition, what if we changed Jimmy's seat to >>> another community-elected seat, and ran elections for what would be 4 >>> community-elected seats every year with 2 seats elected each year for 2 >>> year terms? I think that a standing Elections Committee might be able to >>> facilitate this kind of cycle. >>> >>> Also worth considering: >>> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Thinking_about_the_WMF_Board_composition >>> >>> Pine >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Anders Wennersten < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Den 2016-04-09 kl. 12:51, skrev Fæ: >>>> >>>>> leaving your seat should be made to appear like a >>>>> royal abdication or the result of failure. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, another option to secure a continuity of members in the board >> would >>>> be to accept resignations will occur and then have the community >> election >>>> to end formally in a number of "reserves". and that these reserves are >> to >>>> be elected by the Board if resignation occurs. >>>> As the community election today only gives three candidates for the >>>> Board to elect (or reject), the number four must be seen as a runner >> up, to >>>> be selected by the Board if they do not approve any of the first three. >>>> This reasoning was also reflected in the stating by the election >> community >>>> in early January and the election of Maria as a replacement for James by >>>> the Board. To extend the same reasoning this time is stretching it a >> bit >>>> far, time since last election is further away, and number five in the >>>> election has at least by me never been seen as a runnerup. If the Board >> in >>>> their selection after a community election were to reject two >> candidates I >>>> would consider a reelection more relevant then to go further down the >> list . >>>> >>>> But a bylection is quite costly to set up and run centrally and also for >>>> the whole community. So perhaps we should be broadminded in thinking how >>>> could fill the empty seat after Danny >>>> >>>> >>>> Anders >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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> >>>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> >> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
