I agree that Legoktm is an obvious choice for the Offline user group's
vote, even though I personally like other candidates too.
There's still value in a discourse with other candidates, so I
appreciate the proposal and work by Florence and Sam all the more.
Federico
Il 19/05/22 10:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
Thanks for this Florence. I’ve gone through the list of candidates and there
are very fine people (better that than the opposite!).
We at Kiwix, however, would like to single out Kunal Mehta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> (legoktm), who has been a
long-time supporter of Kiwix within the Foundation (I might stand corrected but he
also single-handedly ensured Debian ports for it and volunteered top code). Needless
to say (but I am still saying it), Kunal has been getting our Kiwix-branded
chocolates ever since we started sending them out.
I encourage you to read his bio/user page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm> - Kunal is not just a coder, but
has a vision for free knowledge. I am told he left the WMF last December, so my take
here is that we would have a trustee here that 1. Understands the tech 2. Understands
the WMF and 3. Understands us (the offline crowd). That’s a lot boxes to tick.
My little informative email has turned into a longer-than-expected soapbox
campaigning, but so be it. If you home chapter is undecided about whom to
support, I encourage you to forward it to them as well.
Cheers,
Stephane
Le 18 mai 2022 à 20:22, Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com> a écrit :
Dear all,
It is back again the time to select representants for our Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees.
This year, the process is different from previous year. If you want to go look
in details, I invite you to read ALL the details on :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022
However, if you want to get the essence of it... here is what you should know...
1) Two people will be selected to join the board, following a two step-process
Step 1: From 1 to 15th of July, all affiliates will vote on the initial list of
candidates. Only one (1) vote per affiliate. From all votes pooled together, a
short list of 6 candidates will be sorted
Step 2 : From 15-29th of August, the community will vote on that short list.
In between the two... the community can ask questions to the candidates
2) Currently, 13 people are candidates. You may find details here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates
They have provided initial statements.
3) Our affiliate will vote beginning of July. Sam and I will prepare a process
so that you may cast your votes. From your propositions, we will sort ONE name.
4) I will invite all current candidates to promote themselves, should they be
interested to, on this mailing list
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