[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[Stephen Hahn]

* Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> [2007-02-05 11:04]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >   A possible draft ballot (to be wedged into the software) is below.
> >   Feedback on language, presented information, etc. is greatly desired.
> >
> >   - Stephen
> >
> >----
> >
> >   To participate in this ballot, you must be a Core Contributor to one
> >   or more Community Groups in the OpenSolaris Community.  The ballot
> >   consists of 2 questions.
> >
> >   Question 1:  Do you approve the document, 
> >
> >   http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Governance_Draft_03
> >
> >   for use as the Constitution of the OpenSolaris Community?
> >
> >   1 - Approve
> >   2 - Disapprove
> >
> >   Question 2:  Question 1, if approved, requires the election of a
> >   Governing Board.  The participants below have been nominated as
> >   candidates to serve on a seven member Board.  The Board members shall
> >   be selected by single transferable vote.  Accordingly, please submit
> >   an ordered list of the candidates, showing your preference by placing
> >   most preferred candidate at the head of the list, followed by
> >   candidates of lower and lower preference.  You may present a list of
> >   the entire slate, or a subset thereof.  (The list is presented in a
> >   pre-selected random order.)
> >
> >   1 - J. Jones (jjones)
> >   2 - S. Smith (ssmith)
> >   ...
> 
> It maybe worth explicitly stating how candidates not listed here are viewed 
>  in the order of preference (all equally at the very lowest level, I 
> assume, but...)

  Sorry, I'm a bit slow today:  are you asking about adding some
  clarification (or additional help text) to explain how candidates
  omitted from a submitted ballot are treated?  Or something about the
  displayed list or the balloting prompt?

  - Stephen

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