On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Al Tally wrote: >> I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I >> understand the >> election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem >> to be >> going wrong this year? >> >> > Things started going wrong when the election committee didn't organize > itself in time. It knew more than a year ago that one or more > individuals would need to be elected this year. It knew when > Wikimania > would be held (the latest dates ever). Because of the late Wikimania, > following last year's timetable would have given them even more time > to > get it together than last year. It would not have needed to > foreshorten > the voting period. What it needs to do soon is to establish a firm > timetable for future elections. With no elections scheduled for two > years this should not be difficult. There is even plenty of time to > do > this earlier to be able to deal with any vacancy that may arise. > > Ec
I agree. I also suggest that the committee may be too small. There are simply a huge number of details involved, and a larger committee may be a better system. Philippe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
