Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-10 Thread Zana Strkovska
Hi, * Anne, thank you for suggestion, I will do that this days. * Antanana, I am not sure that is possible to talk with all 252 suport voters, but I am sure that 220 oppose voters will not try to find me and say why they voted NO about me. :) Regards, Zana (user:Violetova) 2015-06-08 19:57

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-09 Thread WereSpielChequers
One problem with Oppose in that electoral system is that unlike say RFA you don't know why individual people are opposing, though you can make deductions from patterns. For example, as one might have expected the tension between the WMF and the community over the last two years resulted in a

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-08 Thread Zana Strkovska
Hi everybody, Thank you Anne for mention only one woman candidate for FDC this year, it was me. I would like to say something: not time, not money is issue for me (I am free lancer, meaning I can manage my time). My theory is that I didn't pass because I didn't answer questions in the way the

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-08 Thread Risker
On 6 June 2015 at 18:32, Zana Strkovska 777.z...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Thank you Anne for mention only one woman candidate for FDC this year, it was me. I would like to say something: not time, not money is issue for me (I am free lancer, meaning I can manage my time). My theory is

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-06 Thread Risker
Expenses, including travel, lodging, conference fees (if applicable) and the same per diem as staff receive (if food is not supplied) are paid for Board-related activities. Other reasonable expenses are also covered, although everyone is encouraged to take advantage of cost efficiencies where

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

2015-06-06 Thread Kerry Raymond
And if you live outside the USA, you are presumably expected to do multiple long haul flights to the USA for quite short visits meaning being jetlagged the entire time and on your return. I note also that the long haul flights appear to be cattle class with no allowance for extra nights to deal