Interviews with Board of Trustees candidates
The elections for the Board of Trustees continued this week as the registration of candidates closed on Monday, 28 August. There were six new candidates this week: AaronSw, alex756, Arnomane, Evrik, Kim Bruning, and Zuirdj. However, two candidates, Cartman02au and Hadraj, also withdrew from the race, and two additional candidates, Cerejota and NicholasTurnbull, were stricken by interim executive director Brad Patrick because they had not yet been confirmed, bringing the final number of candidates to 17. Cartman02au cited that there were "people more deserving of the position than myself" and that he could serve the Foundation better in other capacities in his withdrawal statement.
Voting will start Friday, 1 September; in order to have suffrage, a user must have 400 edits on one Wikimedia Foundation project before 1 August, 2006, and have started contributing at least 90 days prior to that same date. Approval voting will be used, meaning that a voter may choose to either approve or not approve each of the 17 candidates. The winner will be the candidate with the most votes.
This week, the Signpost also conducted interviews with each of the candidates. As of press time, 16 of the 17 candidates had responded. The other candidate — Linuxbeak — is in the process of preparing a response. Once his response is received, this article will be updated, so we encourage you to place this page on your watchlist so that you will be informed of additional candidate replies.