On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:21 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Fae, >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Not tricky at all. There are *plenty* of other similar organizations >>> that have elections for their trustees to their boards, including >>> several Wikimedia chapters/affiliates where their boards have oversite >>> of many employees and significant sums of money. >> >> >> can you share a few examples of organizations where board members are >> appointed in a binding election and members of the electorate do not have >> to identify themselves to the organization? >> >> Or are you suggesting that the WMF should turn into a membership >> organization and Wikimedians who are unwilling to share personally >> identifying information with the WMF should not be allowed to vote? > > I dont see how the voting method is particularly relevant to this thread..? > It seems this thread is more about governance by post-appointment > trustees, who have been properly vetted before being appointed. > > I dont recall that we've had any serious incidents of the board > election outcome being disrupted because we use a voting process that > includes non-identified people.
i.e. I think we , the community, selected *three* **great** Trustees in the last community election, and the issues that caused us to loose two of them are post-appointment and we should be looking into the governance post-appointment to prevent it happening again. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ 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>
