Thanks Stephane and Federico for the support :)
I've been a member of this group basically since it was created and as
Stephane said, re-introduced the entire Kiwix stack into Debian as well
as designing/implementing the package building CI and Ubuntu PPA to make
it trivial for users to install the latest version of Kiwix, plus
significantly reducing friction between the Debian side and Kiwix devs.
I was first (and still am) a user of Kiwix, having used it when my
college had terrible WiFi and later when I was reporting as a journalist
internationally and had a pretty small data plan (I look stuff up on
Wikipedia/Wiktionary *a lot*). And now I'm an advocate for Kiwix, up to
the point that my non-wiki friends have laptops with Kiwix webcam blockers.
As I've written in my platform[2], I would like to bring my technical
experience to the WMF board, offering a perspective that is grounded in
reality from working on the ground with significant parts of our
technically focused communities.
I'm happy to answer any questions people might have, or respond to
comments/concerns.
[1] https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Ubuntu_PPA
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates/Kunal_Mehta
Thanks,
-- Kunal / Legoktm
On 5/19/22 03:23, Stephane Coillet-Matillon wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<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
<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
Cheers
Florence
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