Hi folks,

One of the things we promised to do when we joined the Software Freedom Conservancy was to formalize our election process. Despite our tradition of leaving these things until the last minute, we (the newly-elected Board) figured we'd sort this out well in advance of the next election, so we can hold it on time.

In practice, the election doesn't have to be all that formal, we just need to document the process. After a bit of discussion in our last meeting, this is the proposal that we came up with. We'd like to submit this to the community for review before sending it on to the SFC:

1. The Squeak Oversight Board has 7 seats.

2. The members of the board are elected annually to a 1-year term.

3. The election will be held during the first two weeks of March each year.

4. The election team will keep a publicly-available list of community members. Anyone on the list may run for a Board seat and vote in the election. (This could be modelled after the list used by Sugar Labs:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members).

5. Everyone who voted in the most recent election is automatically eligible to be added to the list.

6. Anyone can register as a member of the community by contacting the election team. Applicants should have made some sort of contribution to the community - for example, contributed code, reported a bug, written documentation or answered a question on a mailing list.

We figure the bar for becoming a registered member of the community should be pretty low, so just about any contribution would be considered acceptable. 

Questions, comments, concerns? 

Colin Putney, 
on behalf of the Squeak Oversight Board
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