Congrats to the 4 winners. Looking forward to you taking on your roles on the board :-)
James On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 2:52 PM Ad Huikeshoven <[email protected]> wrote: > > For starters, I would like to thank outgoing board members DocJames and > Raystorm for their service to the community by dedicating a lot of time on > board meetings, processing tons of mail, and so on. > > Mario, you are right. An increase in the number of seats will increase the > diversity given a representative election system such as (Meek) STV. > On meta you can find a table of the outcome of the election when varying the > available seats from 1 to 8.[1] > > In case 8 seats were available both Elina en Iván would have also been > elected, adding to the much wanted increase in diversity, in whatever way you > look at these two people. Electing 4 seats now, and 4 seats next year doesn't > help in increasing the diversity using a representative election system. > Against electing all seats at once is the argument for continuity and to > limit board turnover. Maybe we should lean more on appointed seats for > continuity, or as Chris Keating has suggested, select community sourced board > members from this year's election. However Nat and Shani didn't run this > year, and they might seek reelection next year. I wish the board a lot of > wisdom and strength regarding balancing multiple values. > > This is good news for what is next. What is next? Election of 7 seats in the > Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC). Given the analysis of the board > election and the availability of 7 seats in the election, I am confident the > election outcome will show a lot of diversity. Later 6 persons will be > appointed by affiliates, and another 2 by the WMF. The elections and the > appointments will come from the same pool of self-nominations.[2] The MCDC > will most likely institute a Global Council with a lot of room at the table - > some say 40 to 60 seats, others over a 100, we will see - to accommodate the > diversity of our movement. > > There are already over 40 candidates for the MCDC. Compliments to the people > who have recruited so many nominations from the continent of Africa. So far > no one nominated themselves from East Asia. How can we recruit nominations > from that region? Without any of them in the pool, it is hard to elect or > appoint someone. > > The period of self-nomination closes in 5 days! > > Regards, > > Ad Huikeshoven > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Votes > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:22 PM Mario Gómez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, rather than focusing on how different voting schemes would have >> affected some candidates to be one position up or down, wider diversity and >> representativity could be achieved by just electing 8 seats from community >> elections. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/5SQWFARQHJ5JLOKNZYZSGC3NH4QFIA76/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/2RFQZLKYXHWREWJUMJBAYVO4EO4FYIZA/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
