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