[ogb-discuss] 2008 OGB Election

[Richard Lowe]

"Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org> writes:

>> 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?
>

If people want the OGB to remain, people will re-elect them, if they
choose to restand.

I'm not even sure (and I haven't looked), that there is the option of
avoiding one. 

-- Rich