[Elections] Re: Can you run another single person election for us?

[Cees De Groot]

On 8/19/06, Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at tx.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> 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".
>
I tend to agree. It's not that the board is unable to perform now that
one member has left. Holding an election is a lot of work, not the
mechanics per se, but getting everyone to vote etcetera :-)

An alternative: ask the first runner-up of the previous elections to join.

> BTW, another relevant question of policy - when does the current board
> expire?
>
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...