Talk:Elections 2015

=Top page for discussions regarding Elections 2015=

Election committee announcement
Election committee announcement was made by EC via EMail. This year, the Election committee (Elecom2015) comprises of 4 members
 * Srinivas Rao DB : Returning Officer
 * Chinmayi SK: Polling Officer
 * Subas Chandra Rout: Polling Officer
 * Yogesh KS: Polling Officer

Minutes of Conference Call by Election Committee Members, WMIN President and PD on 19th Sep 2015
Minutes 19-Sep

Final Electoral Roll
A check of the documents will be done for all candidates and random checks for the voters.
 * Electoral roll published by WMIN

Election notice
Election notice link is as below.
 * Elections 2015

Signed by Elecom Members
 * 1) D B Srinivas Rao 17:42 04 Oct 2015 (IST)
 * 2) Csyogi 17:44, 4 October 2015 (IST)
 * 3) Chinmayisk 11:13, 5 October 2015 (IST)
 * 4) Telephonic approval from Subas Chandra Rout 17:19, 4 October 2015 (IST)

Email sent on Groups here

First IRC
Email sent on groups here.
 * Announcement
 * IRC Page

Questions for IRC
Member ID : Question
 * Questions may be updated in advance here by members in the following format

Minutes/Recording
Recording

Nominations

 * Elections 2015/Nominations

Verification and approval

 * 3 incomplete application not listed
 * 2 incomplete due to missing proposer/seconder
 * 1 incomplete due to lack of acceptance by candidate

Membership records of all applicants, proposers and seconders were revalidated and clarifications taken at Wikimedia office by Elecom member.

Signed by Elecom D B Srinivas Rao :  Dbsr 12:33, 24 October 2015 (IST) Subas Chandra Rout : --Subas Chandra Rout 15:11, 24 October 2015 (IST) Yogesh K S - Csyogi 20:18, 24 October 2015 (IST) Chinmayi S K -Chinmayisk 23:54, 26 October 2015 (IST)

Final list of candidates
No nominations were withdrawn by due date Final list of candidates is as below

Signed by Elecom D B Srinivas Rao - Dbsr 09:15, 31 October 2015 (IST)

Update on ballots

 * Ballot papers have been posted for all eligible members on 2-Nov-15
 * Completed ballots to be returned by post using the prepaid envelope to reach before Election day
 * Members may also choose to submit their vote personally on election day.

Questions for candidates
Members may post their questions to the candidates here. Candidates to answer the same here in preparation for IRC on 8-Nov.


 * To kick start the discussion, questions asked to candidates last year have been updated on the Q&A page for the candidates to answer. These are all considered relevant for the current election. The IRC 2014 logs with these questions can be found here

Updated by Dbsr 11:37, 5 November 2015 (IST)

Update from IRC
Following candidates participated :
 * Krupal Kashyap
 * Abhinav Srivastava
 * Santoshi Bijendra Tiwari

There was no participation from : A notice will be sent seeking clarification
 * Noopur Raval
 * No response received yet Dbsr 08:26, 14 November 2015 (IST)

Logs from the IRC can be found here

Results
 Results are published here  Signed by Elecom
 * D B Srinivas Rao  ( Dbsr 17:37, 22 November 2015 (IST) )
 * Chinmayi S K ( Chinmayisk 17:38, 22 November 2015 (IST) )
 * Yogesh K S ( Csyogi 17:54, 23 November 2015 (IST) )
 * Subas Chandra Rout

Recommendations from Elecom for future elections

 * EC to setup an online mode of voting to facilitate better participation
 * Elections can be announced earlier to give more time for preparation and preliminary IRCs
 * Review election bylaws to mandate participation. Candidate lists and ballots shall be finalised only after a preliminary IRC with the draft slate of candidates

New User Account Creation
For new user account creation, please send request to membership@wikimedia.in or feel free to contact me at yohannvt@wikimedia.in (via email) Yohannvt 19:03, 8 October 2015 (IST)

Thank you Election committee 2015 (Elecom2015)
On behalf of EC, I would like to thank the Elecom2015 for ensuring a smooth flow of this year's Election process. We appreciate all your effort & time you have put into to make this year's election a transparent process. Yohannvt 11:50, 23 November 2015 (IST)