The removal is not transparent at all. Apart from that James was community elected. A democracy words different.
Very disappointing. > From: rupert.thur...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:51:14 +0100 > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:00 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > issue here. This is hardly unusual. Regarding the removal itself, at least > > in the United States, it's fairly common for members of a body to be able > > to remove/expel one of their own. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of > > Trustees bylaws explicitly allow for removal of a member, with or without > > cause. Unlike in older Board resolutions, there's a clear public > > accounting of how each of the Board members voted (as opposed to simple > > numeric totals). James posted that he will work with Patricio to provide > > like others on this thread i think the WMF bylaws are broken in this > respect. not legally broken, but morally. i'd love to vote for a > trustee, and i'd love to reverse my decision in case a sufficient > party is not happy. if in this case james does not want to have a > public discussion he is free to resign. if the board thinks it cannot > work with james anymore, and is able to remove him without him beeing > ok with it, without public discussion, then i do not find it > transparent. > > best, > rupert > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
