Re: Call for NetBeans Governance Board Elections

software visualization <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:21:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
well +1 obviously

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Kayode Odeyemi <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 to this. We need direction.
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> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> According to the NetBeans Governance page [1] on the netbeans.org Web
>> site, members of the governance board serve six-month terms.  However,
>> the last election was held in October 2009 [2], so there should have
>> been elections in March 2010 [3].  This did not take place as
>> scheduled, nor was any reason for the delay provided.  Consequently,
>> the elections are more than one year past due and the current state of
>> community governance in the NetBeans project is unclear.
>>
>> Therefore, I request that the previously-elected governance board
>> define a reasonable timeline for holding the election.  The process
>> for elections is described clearly [4] on the netbeans.org site.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tom Wheeler
>> NetBeans community member
>>
>> [1] http://netbeans.org/about/os/governance.html
>> [2] http://netbeans.org/about/os/who-board.html
>> [3] http://netbeans.org/community/articles/nbelections.html
>> [4] http://netbeans.org/about/os/election-process.html
>>
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