Elections August 2006

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RE: [Elections] Re: Can you run another single person election for us?
by Peter Crowther 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

> From: Cees De Groot > An alternative: ask the first runner-up of the previous elections to > join. I'm not sure whether this is appropriate or not as a general principle, although I have no problems with it in this case. We had more candidates than board members, but not by much. If many more board members were to leave, the voters would be stuck with me on the board, when I came firmly last in the elections - hardly a ringing endorsement :-). > 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... That was my understanding: the posts were for 12 months. - Peter

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Re: Can you run another single person election for us?
by Daniel Vainsencher 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

Hi dear Tim, board and elections team. Repeating the election process is certainly possible, we always intended to do so when the time comes to replace the board. However it is not obvious to me that running an election whenever someone decides to quit is a good idea - these things have overhead on the people running it, and on the community in general. 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". What do you think? BTW, another relevant question of policy - when does the current board expire? I seem to recall something about a year, but I haven't yet found this documented anywhere. I think the board should decide these things and publish them. Daniel Brent Vukmer wrote: > Hey Tim. Daniel Vainsencher is the best person to ask about running > another election; he's taken my place on the election team. > > > On 8/16/06, tim Rowledge <tim(a)rowledge.org> wrote: >> Hi Brent >> as Stephane has resigned from the board, we'd like to hold an >> election for his replacement. Since you and the elections team did >> such a good job for us last time we are hoping that you can repeat >> the process. Would you feel able to manage this? >> >> tim >> -- >> tim Rowledge; tim(a)rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim >> Useful Latin Phrases:- Die dulci fruere = Have a nice day >> >> >> >

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Process for when a single board member stands down
by Peter Crowther 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

... do we have one? :-/ - Peter -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.2/422 - Release Date: 17/08/2006

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