Given the quickly approaching deadline, and the general support for affiliates voluntarily sharing if they voted (not who they voted for) - I went ahead (after chatting with folks that attended WikiCon) and setup a Meta-Wiki page to allow folks to voluntarily report back over the next couple of days: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Voted <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Voted>
-greg (User:Varnent) > On May 4, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hoi, > There is a difference between your formality and what actually happens. The > board is unlikely to not accept a chosen representative. I wonder if it > ever did. Given the quality of the people who can be chosen from, do you > really expect this to happen and consequently what is it what you want to > achieve except for airing your formality? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 4 May 2016 at 12:58, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Lane Rasberry <l...@bluerasberry.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> As of now, 13 of 42 eligible organizations have voted in the 2016 >> chapters' >>> election for 2 of 10 Wikimedia Foundation seats on the board of trustees. >>> >> >> >> Lane, >> >> A procedural question: Is the chapters' vote binding on the board, or is it >> the same as for the three community board seats, where the community >> members selected in the community vote are merely recommendations that the >> sitting board is free to accept or reject? >> >> If the winners' actually joining the board is dependent on the sitting >> board's approval of these candidates, then it's not really a chapter >> "election" for those board seats: it would be more precise to speak of the >> chapters' vote as a vote to identify chapter-recommended candidates for >> those two board seats. >> >> While that's more clunky – if that's what it really is, then I think it's >> important that we use language that accurately reflects the process by >> which community- and chapter-selected candidates end up on the board. >> >> Best, >> Andreas >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: 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 > New messages to: 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 New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
