Re: Schedule for Governance Board Elections

Hi all,

I support this, and I'd like to nominate the following people for the 
Governance Board:

- Tom Wheeler
- Tim Boudreau
- Sven Reimers
- Toni Epple
- Fabrizio Giudici
- Wade Chandler

Cheers,
Antonio

El 03/03/11 18:31, Tom Wheeler escribió:
> Late last month, I pointed out [1] that the Governance Board elections
> are more than one year overdue.  Several people have written in to say
> they supported electing a new board and nobody wrote in to oppose it.
>
> Yet 10 days later, we're still no closer to holding those elections.
> I therefore propose the following schedule:
>
> March 3 (today): Nominations for board members begin
>
> March 17: Nominations end and nominees contacted to confirm they'll
> stand for election
>
> March 24: Elections are held
>
> March 28: Results confirmed, winners announced and new Governance
> Board begins the six-month term.
>
> Please let me know if you support this schedule, or if not, what you
> propose instead (and why).
>
> Hopefully someone from the NetBeans Web team (i.e. Oracle) will step
> up and work with me to ensure we can use the netbeans.org Web site to
> publicize the nominations/elections and to conduct voting as we've
> done in the past. If that has not taken place by March 10, I will set
> this up myself on my own server and contact this list with details.
>
> I believe a functioning Governance Board is essential to the health of
> the NetBeans project and it's definitely time to move forward to
> ensure we have one.
>
> [1] http://netbeans.org/projects/www/lists/nbdiscuss/archive/2011-02/message/1
>