Hey Manuel, Thank you for the response. Transparency is always good - and this case really shows why.
While Ellie didn't respond and answered the question how people been elected, and summarize her answer to: "We have a system that works for jury selection." Your side and answer shows a whole different point of view. The system seem far away from working correctly. The fact that above the movement biggest *community* event there is a jury who most his members are paid staff, who been selected by a WMF staffer. This is not a decision by a committee, as the committee, as you describe is only been asked for feedback - and that should be clear. I hope next year process will be much more community and much more transparent. Itzik *Regards,Itzik Edri* Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Manuel Schneider < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Itzik et al, > > I think I should weigh in, having been part of this selection. I am just > currently travelling, so I don't follow the mailinglists at the moment. > > > In the past the jury was selected by a moderator - we had Joseph Seddon, > James Forrester and others sending out the invitations and reminders, > collecting the applications, making a selection and announcing it. From > that point on the jury took on the work. > > Now we have a Wikimania Committee which so far has not yet found its > mode to work - it only took one decision so far, and that was > re-defining the bidding schedule to give more time to organise - Ellie > and me were looking to move forward with the coming bidding process. The > only process we actually had was said reviewed and rescheduled timeline. > > As we were actually already approaching the approved deadlines without > anyone acting up, I took initiative to put the new timeline together on > Meta, send out and invitation and had all applications going to Ellie. > I also sent out reminders before the deadline, so everyone should have > been informed and was invited to participate. > > Ellie made a pre-selection which I reviewed and discussed with her, > after some slight adjustments I brought the selection forward the > Wikimania Committee, asking for feedback. We received one response from > someone who wanted to be included which Ellie denied with good arguments > as we need this person take responsibility in other areas (eg. > strengthen the Committee). > > After all selected persons agreed to become the new Jury I sent out the > announcement. > > I agree that we need a better process but I do not see that this year's > process was any worse than before, in the opposite - there have been > more people involved and able to voice their opinions. > > What we actually need is a Wikimania Committee which lives up to its > expectations, actually have meetings (and minutes), which can define > such processes. There have been several changes, also with Ellie coming > in, and everything is done on a volunteer basis. Things are slow. What I > do not accept are critisms on processes from people who didn't actually > participate in the same, even though they were invited to do so. > > Regards, > > > Manuel > -- > Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l >
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