[ogb-discuss] 2008 OGB Election

[Dennis Clarke]

> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> Will the OGB be publishing guidelines and a schedule for the 2008
>> elections some time soon? I think after the holidays the community will
>> need to start thinking seriously about potential candidates and issues.
>
> We haven't discussed it yet, but if we follow the same schedule as last
> year, we'd need to be ready to start taking nominations mid-February,
> for an election in March:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_Status/#electioncalendar
>
> The only thing I know of to do before then is to have the Core Contributor
> rolls up-to-date - we may want to mail the facilitators in January to ensure
> they've named any Core Contribs that they want to have voting rights in the
> election.

  One moment please.

  Can we run a quick knee-jerk mailist poll to see if anyone even wants
  an election?  I am pretty happy with the way things are and the current
  OGB members are all top notch[1] in my books. Why fix things that are
  not broken?

  Perhaps determine that and then maybe poll the community to see what
  sort of election term is reasonable.  OpenSolaris.org is a long term
  vision sort of place and while presedential four year terms may not
  be required perhaps two year terms are.

Dennis Clarke