[Elections] Filling Vacancy

[Ken Causey]

To my knowledge there is no policy.  Perhaps someone will correct me.
My own time on the Board was related to this except that it was decided
to increase the size of the Board, not that anyone resigned.  At that
time the Board simply decided on their own who to add to the roster.

This is not an ideal solution.  But any other solution seems overly
complex, at least too complex to implement without prior planning.  When
I served on the Board, the pre-existing members, if I remember
correctly, had not been elected but were the founders, so to speak.  So
they had no pool of runners-up to pick from.  Having this pool does
improve the situation.  So my opinion is that having the remaining
Leadership members (actually I see no reason that the leaving members
shouldn't also have a say) pick from this pool seems very workable to
me.

But this is an issue that needs further discussion.  I'm personally of
the opinion that the voting mechanism could be used in more instances
than we currently do.  To that end I think it is worth investigating
what can be done to make it as efficient as possible.  I've done a
little work in that area already in making it relatively easy to get a
pastable voter list at any time in moments.  What else could be done?

Ken

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:58 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Tim Rowledge decided to quit from the "Squeak Leadership" (Squeak
> Board) while ago, and Dan Ingalls decided to "make room" another
> person who can more actively attend the bi-weekly conference call.
> So, now we have two seats available.
> 
>   The Leadership members generally think that the runner-up(s) in the
> last election should be promoted.  But was there a policy?  Does
> anybody in the team think that there is an issue with it?  Or was
> there any other ways we once agreed?
> 
>   Let us know your ideas.  Thanks!
> 
> -- Yoshiki
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