Hello everyone, Election time is nearly upon us again. As you may recall the board has three directly elected representatives on it which serve for two years. After last year's restructuring we decided to have the board elections every odd year, and have the chapters select their representatives every even year. As in the past years we rely on an effective election committee to coordinate the elections for us. They not only guarantee that the election is overseen by an independent body, but they also make sure that the tremendous amount of work that needs to be done is taken care of.
In the past years the election committee has often lacked one or two essential skills, this is why the board received a request from members of last year's committee to allow them to reach out and form the basis of an election committee in which all the necessary skills were present, but which was also able to operate across the different time zones. The board agreed to this approach and has so far approved the following election committee members after they were proposed. Jesse Plamondon-Willard - User:Pathoschild (UTC-5; Quebec, Canada) Daniel Bryant - User:Daniel (UTC+10:30; Adelaide, Australia) Yann Forget - User:Yann (UTC+1; Haute-Savoie, France) 'Dvortygirl' - User:Dvortygirl (UTC-7; California, United States) Alexandre Emsenhuber - User:iAlex (UTC+1; Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Mohsen Salek - User:Mardetanha (UTC+3:30; Zanjan, IR Iran) Philippe Beaudette - User:Philippe (UTC-5; Oklahoma, United States) Andrew Garrett - User:Werdna (UTC+10; Sydney, Australia) Of course there is always room for more volunteers. If you feel that you can contribute to this committee, please contact the board election committee (board-electi...@lists.wikimedia.org) and inform them of your interest and give a small summary of why you think you would be able to help out with this process. Just to make sure we all understand: you cannot be part of the election committee if you are planning to be a candidate or are planning to support any candidate publicly or have any other conflict of interest. Deadline for any extra volunteers is April 3nd 12:00 UTC. After the deadline the election committee will decide which extra volunteers they want to propose to the board for approval. The timeline for the next steps in the process will be published in the beginning of April by the election committee. So if you are interested in becoming a candidate, time to start preparing! Regards Jan-Bart de Vreede Board Liason Election Committee _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l