I see no reason not to aim for it to be as perfect as possible. I am not talking about on
the
scale that the foundation elections are, simply a small group to ensure that this election
is
being run as fairly as possible.
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 01:50:40 +0100> From:
thomas.holden(a)gmail.com> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re:
[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK election commitee> > Seems a little excessive. This election
was never expected to be perfect.> > 2008/9/5 joseph seddon
<life_is_bitter_sweet@hotmail.co.uk>:> > As you all may or may not be aware,
WMUK are going to be having elections to> > form> > an interim board, to run
WMUK and be responsible for the running of the> > until the> > time that the
company is formed. Until now, the elections have mostly been> > arranged> > by
those participating in them, and i feel that this is not particularly a> > good
thing> > and I wanted to improve the legitimacy of these elections. Following>
> separate> > discussions with Cary Bass and Tom Dalton the idea that I would
like to> > propose is to> > have what is effectively an election committee
designed to oversee the> > running of> > the WMUK elections. The proposed make
up of this board is as follows, two> > representatives from the UK, one person from
ChapCom and one from the> > foundation> > board, however any of those numbers
and where the members are sourced from> > can change if a consensus for it
exists.> >> >> > The role of this committee would be to oversee the
elections, ranging from> > deciding> > the timetable of events, overseeing the
voting stages including the methods> > and> > medium the voting will take
place in and finally the verifying and> > announcement of> > the results. I
hope that this would allow the UK board an amount of> > legitimacy in the> >
running of WMUK in the eyes of the UK community and also the foundation.> >> >
If the UK community has no issues I would like to offer my services to> > organise
this.> > Comments would be grateful.> >> > User:Seddon @ en-wiki>
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