Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2009/Committee/en

The election ended 10 August 2009. No more votes will be accepted.
The results were announced on 12 August 2009.

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2009 Board elections
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Organization
Election Committee Translation

The 2009 Board Election Committee manages the details of the election organization within the capacity delegated to them by the Board of Trustees, subject to Board overview, and may give recommendations to the Board about the elections.

Membership

The Committee consists of members appointed by the Board of Trustees to organize the 2009 Wikimedia Board of Trustees election. Committee members must be editors of one or more Wikimedia projects, cannot be on the Board of Trustees or candidates in the election, and cannot vote in the 2009 election of trustees.

The Board announced the 2009 Committee members on 26 March 2009, and they are listed in the table below:

Name	Languages	Location (time zone)
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)	en, fr	Montreal, Canada (UTC-5)
Daniel Bryant	en, is-3, ja-2	Adelaide, Australia (UTC+10:30)
Yann Forget	fr, en-3, hi-2, gu-1	Haute-Savoie, France (UTC+2)
"Dvortygirl"	en, es-2, el-1	California, United States (UTC-7)
Alexandre Emsenhuber	fr, en-2, de-2, pt-1	Neuchâtel, Switzerland (UTC+2)
"Mardetanha"	fa, az, en-3, tr-2, ar-1	Zanjan, Iran (UTC+3:30)
Andrew Garrett	en	London, United Kingdom (UTC+1)
Philippe Beaudette	en	Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (UTC-5) (resigned 8-12-09)

Tasks

The Committee is responsible for planning and maintaining virtually every aspect of the Board election. For example, the Committee plans the type of voting, suffrage criteria, and criteria for candidacy, drafts and organizes all of the official election pages on Meta, verifies that candidates and voters meet the criteria, audits votes to ensure there are no duplicate votes or other problems, et cetera.