I was only suggesting this where there was a COI. Most votes ( should be free and could be declared publically). I find t difficult to believe that anyone is going to be influenced by friendship actually - my proposal was designed to prevent trustees from being accused of being influenced.
Roger On 7 October 2012 14:25, Jan-bart de Vreede <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > So I would strongly argue the other way around. Voting transparency is > important to ensure that the rest of the movement has insight into the > votes of different board members (which could influence them to select you > as a board member the next time around) > > If you are someone's "mate" then you probably have a COI is as well, and I > would assume you would also recuse yourself... > > Jan-Bart de Vreede > Board of Trustees > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > On 7 okt. 2012, at 15:03, Roger Bamkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing that needs preserving here is not knowing who voted for what > (where there is a conflict of interest). Without this then "your mate" may > not feel free to vote the way that s/he thinks is good for WMUK. The whole > point of excluding those who have declared COI is to allow the other > trustees to vote without influence from the excluded trustee. > > Roger > > On 7 October 2012 13:14, Richard Farmbrough <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Couldn't you just say "not a good idea"? >> >> On 06/10/2012 17:36, Katie Chan wrote: >> >>> an absolutely horrendous proposal >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l<http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l> >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Roger Bamkin Victuallers Ltd 01332 702993 0758 2020815 Google+:Victuallers Skype:Victuallers1 Flickr:Victuallers2
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