Hi Steph,

I for one am glad we have a few candidate, and you among them. I don't 
think its so bad if we have few candidates: The Debian project (with 
over 1000 registered voting developers) has had 6 nominees for 1 
position in 2005, and 3 nominees in 2004.

If we have few candidates and decide to cancel the vote, selecting all 
candidates to the board (until some acting Board takes it upon 
themselves to create a fixed, long term rule-set, I consider this 
decision the prerogative of the elections team), the board still has the 
basic legitimacy that they are in place not merely for historical 
reasons, and that any better candidates only needed to have run. So the 
elections would still serve their original purpose - to make sure the 
Board is elected fairly. This value is not determined solely by the vote.

I see two other options, which are:
1. Adding "nobody" as a candidate to the vote, and denoting board 
members only those that defeated "nobody" (thus, every board member was 
preferred by the community to not having them).
2. Reducing the number of places on the board to around 3 (thus making 
it easy to have more candidates than positions, and getting a more 
typical board size).
Again, I consider this decision the topic of the elections team, so 
please direct any discussion of that to the elections mailing list 
(remember to register to it before posting there!).

But until the 18th, I would like to encourage everyone to look into 
their hearts and think whether there's some services that they want to 
do for this community, that is best done within the board. If the answer 
is yes, just submit your candidacy. If you prefer to make your 
contribution elsewhere, such as in code, then be happy and have fun in 
doing just that :-)

Daniel Vainsencher

stephane ducasse wrote:
> By the way, I think that the board should be **elected*** and have the 
> support from the community
> so we should have more candidates than positions. I will redraw my 
> candidature if by 18th we do not get
> more than 7 candidates.
>
> It really important to make sure that people will vote for a "program" 
> or a "vision". So it is crucial that
>     - we get more than 7 candidates,
>     - each candidates really say what he plans to do besides been in 
> the board.
>
> This will help the foundation been a real entity having a base support.
>
> Stef
>
> On 11 févr. 07, at 02:38, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
>
>> Welcome Stef.
>>
>> Ok that makes 5 candidates: Cees, Tim, Craig, Bert and Stef.
>>
>> Please keep the announcements coming!  Remember the deadline is 
>> February 18,
>> 2007.
>>
>> If there is a candidate you think should be running now would be a 
>> good time
>> to contact them directly and encourage them to run.  Maybe we should
>> consider a draft?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Teitelbaum
>> Squeak Elections Team Member
>>
>>> From: stephane ducasse
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:45 PM
>>>
>>> I would like to run for these elections. I do not have the time to
>>> really go into the details of what I did in the past nor why I left
>>> the board (I explained that in an email for people that want to
>>> know). Now it seems to me that the board wants to raise funds and
>>> spend money so
>>> this apparently changed.
>>>
>>> For the future I would like to help the squeakfoundation by
>>>     - pushing fund raising
>>>     - pushing bounty or any other means to get some infrastructural 
>>> work
>>> done
>>>     - supporting the release team
>>>     - having more contacts with the different sub or forks
>>>     - supporting book/articles/... or any initiative increasing the
>>> visibility of squeak
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I received another question about running for the board.  As a
>>>> reminder anyone that wants to run for the board needs to announce
>>>> to squeak-dev by February 18, 2007.  All you need to do is send an
>>>> email to squeak-dev (squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org) stating
>>>> that you are running.  We would like you to include why you are
>>>> running, what your experience is and what you would like to work on
>>>> if elected.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We currently have 4 candidates for 7 positions:   Cees, Tim, Craig,
>>>> and Bert.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's going to be a very quick election if we do not get more
>>>> candidates!  Please consider serving your community by running for
>>>> the board.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ron Teitelbaum
>>>>
>>>> Squeak Elections Team Member
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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