[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

Sun Aug 21 03:03:13 UTC 2011

On 20 August 2011 22:48, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette
> <philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
> > cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote
> >> concluding and the results being announced?
> >>
> >>
> > First, I disagree that it's "ridiculously unrealistic".  Vote checking
> has
> > already started and will continue throughout the polling.  Second,
> hindsight
> > is 20/20.  I'll tell you that it's a balancing act... we've gotten it
> right
> > a few times and we've gotten it wrong a few times.  It's been years since
> > this  type of all-projects election was held for anything but a Board of
> > Trustees election, and so, yeah, mistakes will be made.  But let's just
> wait
> > and see on the timeframe, shall we?  No doubt an extension will have to
> > happen, but.... what's the harm?  If we take a couple extra days to
> announce
> > the results, who has been harmed?
> >
> >'
>
> Months, not extra days, dude.
>

Jussi, I have no idea why you think it would take months to carry out due
diligence on these votes, or months to release the results. Perhaps you
should explain why you think that.

Risker/Anne