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Candidate Deadline Feb 18th 2007
by Ron Teitelbaum 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

All, I had someone ask me this question so I thought I'd remind everyone about our candidate deadline. http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/2007-squeak-board-elections-ann ounced/ If you are planning on running for the board you need to announce that fact to this list (squeak-dev) by Feb 18th 2007. http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/squeak-dev >From memory, I know that Craig, Tim, and Bert are running again. I do not know about Cees, Yoshiki, and Marcus. I could be wrong about who has announced and who has not. If so please correct me. Now is the time to encourage people to run. Also remember you will need an account on Squeak People http://people.squeakfoundation.org/ with a certification of at least apprentice to vote. If you have questions please feel free to ask the list or send me an email. Thank you for your participation, Ron Teitelbaum Ron(a)USMedRec.com Squeak Elections Team Member

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Time for a new election
by Daniel Vainsencher 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi everyone, Its that time of the year again, and I'd like some help organizing it, mostly in the sense of extra eyes, and there are also some particular tasks that I would appreciate some help with. First, here's the timeline I am thinking of using: 2 weeks for candidate registration and general discussion (time for people to say what they want, convince their own favorites to run and so forth). - candidate registration deadline 2 weeks for discussion with candidates - time for the candidates to present their platforms, and people to ask questions and so forth. Parallel to this, voter registration. - deadline for voter registration 1 week for voting - elections end, announcement of results. Second, the list of general tasks: - Endorsing participation from sibling communities, setting up delegates to them. - Setting up the CIVS election - Official and other posts to general list to get the process moving. So, who's here and willing to help? any thoughts about the timeline? Daniel

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RE: [Elections] Re: Can you run another single person election for us?
by Peter Crowther 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

> From: Cees De Groot > An alternative: ask the first runner-up of the previous elections to > join. I'm not sure whether this is appropriate or not as a general principle, although I have no problems with it in this case. We had more candidates than board members, but not by much. If many more board members were to leave, the voters would be stuck with me on the board, when I came firmly last in the elections - hardly a ringing endorsement :-). > It's probably "documented" in some mailing list archive, but the idea > was to hold elections every year around the same time, which would be > February... That was my understanding: the posts were for 12 months. - Peter

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Re: Can you run another single person election for us?
by Daniel Vainsencher 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

Hi dear Tim, board and elections team. Repeating the election process is certainly possible, we always intended to do so when the time comes to replace the board. However it is not obvious to me that running an election whenever someone decides to quit is a good idea - these things have overhead on the people running it, and on the community in general. We need a policy for this, and I personally tend towards "reelect the whole board when the time comes, or some low threshold is passed (say, after 4 quits), whichever is first". What do you think? BTW, another relevant question of policy - when does the current board expire? I seem to recall something about a year, but I haven't yet found this documented anywhere. I think the board should decide these things and publish them. Daniel Brent Vukmer wrote: > Hey Tim. Daniel Vainsencher is the best person to ask about running > another election; he's taken my place on the election team. > > > On 8/16/06, tim Rowledge <tim(a)rowledge.org> wrote: >> Hi Brent >> as Stephane has resigned from the board, we'd like to hold an >> election for his replacement. Since you and the elections team did >> such a good job for us last time we are hoping that you can repeat >> the process. Would you feel able to manage this? >> >> tim >> -- >> tim Rowledge; tim(a)rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim >> Useful Latin Phrases:- Die dulci fruere = Have a nice day >> >> >> >

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Process for when a single board member stands down
by Peter Crowther 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

... do we have one? :-/ - Peter -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.2/422 - Release Date: 17/08/2006

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RE: [Elections] Cees mentioned a possible vote
by Peter Crowther 24 May '06

24 May '06

> From: Daniel Vainsencher > So I say we keep our ear open on this one, and wait till a vote is > needed. This is about the vote. As to coverage - seems like > a good idea. I agree. The technology is ready if needed - we use CIVS, as before. The process is ready if needed, although if I were the tyrant-in-charge I'd want to extend the pre-vote time (the time between the vote being announced and it opening) from the length we used for the board elections. I think we could be ready within a couple of days if a snap vote were needed. In the meantime, let's air the issues. - Peter

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Cees mentioned a possible vote
by Ron Teitelbaum 24 May '06

24 May '06

All, Cees has mentioned that a possible vote about the future direction of Squeak may come up if the community can not agree on a consensus. My feeling is that consensus is difficult to detect even in the best of circumstances. Is this something that we should start preparing for? Do we need to have a more formal process for gathering and reporting on opinions? Should we be preparing for an election? Is this vote something that the elections team should step up and offer services for? Should the news team and the election team join forces to try to give better coverage to the issues? (An informed voter is our best hope) Your thoughts? Ron Teitelbaum

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RE: [Elections] Stepping down (and stepping up)
by Peter Crowther 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

> From: Peter Crowther > Sent: Thu 3/2/2006 8:00 AM > <shrug> Then why does this team exist? [...] > So: From here, what are the objectives for this team? ... Anybody? - Peter

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RE: [Elections] Stepping down (and stepping up)
by Peter Crowther 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> From: goran(a)krampe.se > "Peter Crowther" <Peter(a)ozzard.org> wrote: > > 1. Board replaces team leader with someone who will co-operate; > > 2. New team leader removes unwanted member. > Ehm... an *extremely* vague possibility though. I hope so, yes. > Sure, but... well, the team model doesn't actually say that the board > has the ability to *replace* a team leader. It just says the board > assigns the team leader that is willing to do it. And if that leader > steps down the next leader is also officially "assigned" by the board. > > This is at least my interpretation of my own words and my own thoughts > at the time when I wrote them ;). Fair enough. Evidently I put a different interpretation on it. > Personally I think we have bigger fish to fry than to dream > up these odd unlikely scenarios. <shrug> Then why does this team exist? We have an apparently-working board selection process (nobody seems to have complained about the process, just the timescale); we have a team model; we have a board that is presumed by the model to be incorruptible and infallible. What work is left for this team to do under those assumptions? It had previously been mooted that this team would go on and look at more general governance issues. If that's still on the agenda - and it may not be - then I would argue that it is exactly these odd, unlikely scenarios that need examination. To use a programming analogy: if we're going to come up with robust code, we have to consider exceptions. I'd rather the exception block was something other than [self halt: 'Erm... I don't know what to do now.']. So: From here, what are the objectives for this team? - Peter

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RE: [Elections] Stepping down (and stepping up)
by Peter Crowther 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

> From: Daniel Vainsencher > Well, this named "king" has asked for either volunteers to run for > leader instead of him, or this teams support. What say you? You have my support. I'm commenting on the process, not the person. - Peter

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