I will not participate (since I am WMF staff), but I do encourage this group to exercise its right to vote!
A. On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:58 PM Mardetanha <mardetanha.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > the easiest way would be to have an internal telegram poll and then vote > based on that > Mardetanha > > > On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:58 PM Nicolas VIGNERON < > vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The voting period is now open. >> Do we want to want to vote as a group? (I'm a bit concerned no-one even >> aswered my previous email :/ ) and if so, how should we procede? I was >> thinking about an internal vote, and take the results but I fear there will >> be too few votes to be representative of the group. I need you, *we *and *you >> *need you! >> So the big question is: should I launch the internal vote and is anyone >> interrested? (for obvious reasons, it would be good that someone assist me >> to make sure everything is going fine). >> >> For information, there is 12 candidates (listed with statements on >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations, >> including the two seats whose terms have expired) and as remarked, none « >> mentioned Wikisource specifically in their candidate statement » (source: >> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:News/2019-05 ). >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas Vigneron >> >> Le mer. 17 avr. 2019 à 13:57, Nicolas VIGNERON < >> vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> As you may know, the election of the Affiliate-selected Board seats >>> (ASBS) has begun. >>> We, as the Wikisource Community User Group, can take part in this >>> election and elected two person to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia >>> Foundation. >>> The meta page >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019 >>> give some lengthy informations, here is a quick summary: >>> - since April 15 and until April 30, people will candidate to seat at >>> the board, at this step we can ask question to candidates and *endorse* two >>> candidates. >>> - between May 8 and May 31, we can vote. >>> >>> For this whole process, I am the primary contact but we *all* make the >>> decision, I'm merely the messenger of the group here. >>> >>> Here is how I suggest to proceed: >>> - right now, write together questions and criteria for candidate we want >>> to endorse (WMNL shared this table to help >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assessing_candidates_for_the_Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_of_the_Board_of_Trustees.pdf >>> but it's very general, we should adapt it to this usergroup needs ; here is >>> copy of this table https://lite.framacalc.org/asbs2019-wcug we can work >>> on). You can also ask question in your own name. >>> - in May, we vote for the candidates inside the user group (not sure how >>> to best handle this part, I would prefer it to be public but we can do it >>> in private too) and then, I will take the results and vote in the name of >>> the user group. >>> - is anyone interested to be the secondary contact? (I'm a bit busy so I >>> could use some help ;) ) >>> - if you feel the need, we can do an online meeting to talk about it, >>> but as we are scattered all around the globe, finding a good timeslot is >>> challenging. Would anyone be interested? (or is this mailing list enough?) >>> - obviously, any question, idea, remark, suggestion are welcome! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> ~nicolas >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org
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