[Elections] Upcoming elections

[Cees De Groot]

Hi all,

Goran will post shortly a more detailed announcement on squeak-dev,
but I thought it'd be the right way to do if I gave you a
pre-announcement:

Coming February 15th is the date that the "Islanders" promised to step
down. This will happen as planned, together with the rest of the SqF
board. Most of the board will be available for re-election, but there
will be vacant spots to be filled. Details in Goran's announcement.

Which means that the election team has work to do :-).

Specifically: find candidates, decide on an election system, and
organize the whole shebang.

Note: Feb 15th is a target date we'd really like to stick to. 6 weeks
should be enough if there can be a quick agreement on how to hold the
elections. It clearly is not enough if no consensus can be reached,
but I hardly think that that would be a valid reason to postpone the
elections.

It seems that the arguments have been put forward, there's a "KISS
proposal" (the wiki electorate thing or my variation with sign-up and
later publication of the electorate) vs a "SqP proposal" (using SqP as
a voter's registry) it seems, so my suggestion would be to run these
two proposals through squeak-dev, get a feel on how the community
feels, and decide - this could be done in a week or so, leaving 5
weeks for implementation and execution). And make it two final
proposals, lest the whole discussion starts again on squeak-dev :-).

Just my 2 cents on procedure. Being a candidate on the coming
elections I'll refrain from everything but factual clarifications (if
anyone wants to know who the roots of SqP are, for example. They can
be changed at any time, by the way) and practical help from now on.

Regards,

Cees