Our answer to a proposal from Joseph to be pat of an overseeing body:
We at ChapCom are happy to see your energetic efforts to restart the Wikimedia UK chapter.
We are following your progress by three of us being participants of your UK mailgroup. We
are prepared to give our support in your work, when and if it is needed. We look at an
interim committee as a temporary body where the formalities for being involved could be
be kept at minimum. Mostly we have seen it being set up by a group of volunteers. And as
we want to see an election to be fully controlled by the involved community, we say no to
being part of any overseeing body. If you want though, we could appoint an
"advisor" to support you effort.
Anders Wennersten on behalf of ChapCom
joseph seddon skrev:
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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