[cab-discuss] Nominations?

[Stephen Hahn]

* Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM> [2007-01-31 00:30]:

  Thanks for writing this up.

> The OpenSolaris Governing Board is pleased to announce the start of
> the annual elections to elect a governing board for 2007, under the
> terms and conditions as set out in the OpenSolaris constitution.
> 
> Who can vote?
> 
> To be eligible to vote, you must be a current member of the OpenSolaris 
> community, as defined in the constitution, and be present on the current 
> voting list as prepared by the Secretary no more than 10 days before the
> the start of the voting period for the elections.
> 
> If you are not a member, you may either need to apply for membership, or
> renew an expired membership and be present on the voting list no less than 
> 3 days prior to the start of the voting period for the elections.

  I would suggest capitalizing Member, Constitution, etc.  I think a
  link to the draft Constitution on genunix.org is needed, at least as a
  footnote.  Probably also an excuse about the bootstrap nature of this
  election.

> Being a candidate
> 
> Candidates for election to the OpenSolaris Governing Board must be
> nominated by a current member, or themselves providing they are a
> member, and be registered as an OpenSolaris participant. All
> candidates should send an e-mail to
> opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org with your name, e-mail address,
> corporate affiliation (if any), along with a description of why you'd
> like to serve.
> 
> If you are not a member and would like to stand for the election, you
> must first apply for membership and be accepted to be eligible to run.

  I think the ordering here is backwards:  any Participant can be
  nominated, but must be nominated by a Member.

> The OpenSolaris Governing Board shall consist of 3 and a maximum of 7
> people elected by the members of the community. You may vote for up to
> 7 people.

  I think we need to pick a specific number of seats, unless we're
  proposing something new.  Seven was the result of discussions that led
  to the current draft.
 
  Well, the dates below will all have to slip now.

> Timeline
> (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST)
> 
>     February 2007
>   S  M Tu   W  Th F  S
>               (1) 2  3   Candidate nominations open
>   4  5   6  7  8  9 10
> (11)(12)13 14 15 16 17   Candidate nominations close (11th)
>                          Campaigning begins (12th)
>  18 19  20 21 22 23 24
>  25 (26)27(28)           Voting list finalized (26th)
>                          Campaigning finishes (28th)
> 
>    March 2007
>  S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
>             (1) 2  3     Elections begin
>  4  5  6  7 (8)(9)10     Elections finish (8th)
>                          Election results announced (9th)
> 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
> 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
> 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

  I guess we can open on (8) February, so a one week slip.

  - Stephen
  
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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/