RationalWiki:2015 board of trustees election/Nominations

Nominations are open.

This is the page to nominate potential board members and for nominees to accept or reject their nomination. In order for a user to be nominated they must meet certain requirements:
 * Be 18 years of age or older
 * Be a registered user for 1 year or longer on RationalWiki (Registered by January 26, 2014)
 * Have 250 edits or more
 * Have at least 1 edit in the last 3 months

The nomination procedure is easy. Any user may nominate any number of users who meet the requirements, including themselves, by placing the user name in the nominee section and informing that user on their talk page. No second is required. Each nominee must accept the nomination or else they will not be eligible during the election.

Nominees may accept a nomination by adding their signature to it. Those who wish to decline nominations should strikeout the nomination with a brief note. Likewise, ineligible nominations should also be struckout.

Nominees should also "accept" their nominations to indicate their presence and awareness of this grand scheme.

Duties
The Board meets about once per quarter (or more often, as necessary), usually for two hours. Most of the business of board takes place over e-mail. Depending on the number of projects and the time of year board members should expect to spend a few hours a month reading, contributing and voting in these e-mail discussions.

Members do have certain powers and duties candidates should be aware of. Membership in the Board means being a corporate director of the RationalMedia Foundation, Inc. In general, corporate directors exercise the highest level of management and control over a corporation and are ultimately responsible for its governance and welfare. They appoint and supervise the Operations Manager, have the final word on the corporation's purpose and goals and ensure that it has adequate resources to carry them out, ensure compliance with the corporation's legal and ethical obligations, approve major expenditures, and respond to significant changes of circumstance in a timely manner. In practice, their job is generally supervisory, as they delegate authority to carry out the corporation's needs to the Operations Manager, who in turn may delegate further authority to his or her staff.

Directors must also conduct themselves in good faith and the corporation's best interests; exercise due diligence, independent judgment, and skill; prudently manage the corporation's resources; and generally promote the success of the corporation. This is of course only a general description.

Example
To nominate, link to the user name: (and preferably tell them afterwards)
 * tmtoulouse

To accept the nomination, indicate acceptance and then sign next to your user name:
 * tmtoulouse - accept Tmtoulouse (talk) 17:22, 01 April 1984 (UTC)

To reject the nomination, indicate reject-ance and then sign next to your user name:
 * tmtoulouse - reject Tmtoulouse (talk) 17:22, 01 April 1984 (UTC)

Nominees are encouraged to read the guide for board of trustees election before accepting or rejecting a nomination.

List of nominees

 * David Gerard - Accept. David Gerard (talk) 11:17, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Bicycle Wheel Not willing to give out home address. Bicycle wheel silverbrain.png 20:09, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You wouldn't have to. Addresses listed on the annual report are the RMF's business address. You'd need to disclose your name but depending on the order in which directors are listed, the New Mexico Secretary of State wouldn't list it online. Nutty Roux (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, OK. I see from your reply on the talk page that it doesn't matter if there aren't five candidates, so that removes my only reason for standing. Bicycle  wheel silverbrain.png 21:38, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Weaseloid Thanks, but no. 01:42, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Smerdis of Tlön . Fundraising and financial management?  I'll take "Things I Suck At" for $1000, Alex. - Smerdis of Tlön, A ⇒ ¬A. 15:49, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note everyone on the board has to have the same strengths, and in fact, on most boards, it is best to have a variety of strengths. Sterile (talk) 16:59, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I believe you meant to write "not" there. In this case, the distinction is critical. 07:34, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Stabby the Misanthrope - Accept.  02:05, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Scream!! Accept Scream!! (talk) 16:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC) owt for a laff
 * Sterile Self imposed term limit. Time for new faces. Sterile (talk) 18:13, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * AD
 * Miekal see smerdis's reason.-- Mie kal  17:27, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Tielec01 Until this very second I was sure I would decline - accept. (I will buy a microphone if elected). Tielec01 (talk) 03:10, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Nutty Roux No. Nutty Roux (talk) 20:29, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * AgingHippie I have, in private conversation with Nutty, volunteered to do any research/database/writing/editing work the Board needs done. That offer stands. I am not interested in serving as a board administrator. Besides, I only just started editing yesterday after a 6-month absence. Anyone who cares about the project shouldn't vote for that. AgingHippie (talk) 13:44, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ZooGuard The hour difference would be the least problem...--ZooGuard (talk) 10:35, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Bob M Not this time. (I did my bit a while ago.)--Bob"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that." 08:36, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ScepticWombat Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I must decline, not least due to being ineligible (less than 1 year's seniority on RW). ScepticWombat (talk) 07:28, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * GrantC I'm afraid I have too much on my plate to worry about right now without adding another commitment, even if it's not a huge one. - Grant (talk) 08:08, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Nullahnung Thanks, but no. Nullahnung (talk) 11:04, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Human - Accept.  ħ uman [[Image:human sig talk.gif|link=User talk:Human|User talk:Human]] 21:54, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Tmtoulouse
 * ListenerX — If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if shown a possible opportunity to become one of the first Trustees to be elected in the communist manner, I will self-nominate. 07:34, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

2015 board of trustees candidates
Baring any last-minute candidates, this is it. 03:56, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) David Gerard
 * 2) Stabby the Misanthrope
 * 3) Scream!!
 * 4) Tielec01
 * 5) Human
 * 6) ListenerX
 * Sorry but why are you counting ListenerX's strange entry a "accept"? Scream!! (talk) 10:32, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Re-read his entry. He posted it himself as a nomination of himself because he thinks it'll be a slam-dunk win since there is little viable competition. Noisemobile (talk) 10:45, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Not to me: the word repeated throughout his "nomination" is "if". While accepting that self nomination is OK, I don't think that this qualifies as such. Furthermore at no stage of this entry is the word "accept". Scream!! (talk) 10:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Well then, there is only one solution: I've asked LX to clarify what his post meant for us. In the meanwhile, I'd hazard to say he gave a very Minnesota-humorous response, so I don't blame you all for not getting it. It's not ridiculously cold where you are and you don't have the cabin fever flavor of humor that comes with it. Noisemobile (talk) 10:58, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The way I read it he is nominating conditional on being elected unchallenged, i.e. 5 candidates for 5 positions. 03:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Noisemobile was very perceptive; my self-nomination was not conditional (even though the election will, with six candidates, follow more after the fashion of ancient Athens than Soviet Russia). According to the rules I automatically "accepted" my self-nomination by signing it. 04:04, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Great, we've got our list. When does the election proper begin? 04:13, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It gets done when it gets done. Calm down. I swear, recently here you've been all up in RW's kool aid. Merging every article in sight... all over every talk page... responding to every random butthurt fool who posts a gripe... just chill the fuck out. --Inquisitor (talk) 06:30, 29 January 2015 (UTC)