We are about to have the first-ever elections in the Squeak
community. (Sweet!) This is a long email; I want to make
sure that the steps and timing for
the voting process are clearly explained. <br>
<br>
Here's the process we'll follow:<br>
<br>
i) Voters from the 'squeak-dev' community must register on SqP and get <br>
ranked as Apprentice or higher by 2/17 midnight UTC (if you're not
ranked at least Apprentice, contact other SqP folks and ask them to
rank you)<br>
<br>
ii) We will contact the Squeak stakeholder organisations listed at <a href="http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/9" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/9</a>
and asked to pass over<br>
email addresses of any voters they wish to include in the
election. Each organization has until 2/17 midnight UTC to
provide their list.<br>
<br>
iii) Candidates who are willing to stand and meet the criteria described at<br>
<a href="http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html</a> must announce their
candidacy by 2/17 midnight UTC (ideally, with someone to second them).<br>
<br>
The current list of candidates is:<br>
<br>
Noury Bouraqadi<br>
Ken Causey<br>
Peter Crowther<br>
Cees de Groot<br>
Marcus Denker<br>
Stephane Ducasse<br>
Craig Latta<br>
Tim Rowledge<br>
<br>
iv) The lists of email addresses from i) and ii) will be combined into a list of voters <br>
<br>
v) I will create a private election on the CIVS web application
(<a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html</a>) using the voter list from
iv) and the candidate list from iii). The election will be run
using Condorcet voting with<br>
the CIVS Ranked Pairs completion rule. The election will run from February 20th through Febuary 23rd.<br>
<br>
vi) The CIVS application will send each voter an e-mail informing them
that the election is open, reminding them of the date when the election
will end, and giving them a URL where they can rank their choices.<br>
<br>
vii) I will email an announcement that the election has started to squeak-dev and all stakeholder lists.<br>
<br>
viii) At midnight 2/23 UTC, the vote will be closed.<br>
<br>
ix) I will send an email declaring the result to squeak-dev and all stakeholder lists, and will ask for feedback.<br>
<br>
This puts the election a week after the current Board has stepped
down. This is due **only** to my negligence as Election Team
leader. I have not put in the time needed to get the election
done before the current Board steps on 2/16. <br>
<br>
Here's the timeline in compact form:<br>
<br>
2/10-2/17 sign up by voters; list-gathering by admins; last chance for additional candidates (ends midnight 2/17 UTC)<br>
2/18-2/19 set up CIVS for election (ends midnight 2/19 UTC)<br>
2/20-2/23 vote (ends midnight 2/23 UTC)<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<span class="sg">
Brent</span>