Time for Election of Director

Colleagues,

   It is that time of year again, time to elect a Project JEDI Director for 
2005-2006.  The established calendar is as follows:

April 16, 2000 - candidates registration starts, election date reminded 
April 30, 2000 - registration finishes, candidates get their web pages, and 
discussion starts.
May 14, 2000 - elections starts
May 21, 2000 - election stops
May 22, 2000 - elections results.
June 1, 2000 - new JEDI Director takes the office

The following additional information is contained in the JEDI Structure 
document approved in 2002:

JEDI Director is an elected position. The candidate should be a well known 
individual, accepted by the Delphi community and an active contributor to JEDI 
in the past. Below are the election rules: 


-   Voting every year on the same date (to avoid that it is "forgotten"). 
Proposed date is:
o   May 14th, 2001, and each following year
-   The date will be announced/reminded at least a month before the election
-   Every JEDI member should be able to vote - not only Steering members.
-   JEDI members should be able to nominate themselves and should be able to 
discuss the candidates.
-   Candidates have to show support of at least two JEDI members and one 
Steering Team member, before they go on the ballot 
-   Candidates should create HTML pages stating how they feel they would 
direct JEDI. These pages will be placed on JEDI Web
-   We will have one trusted individual as the Election Manager, responsible 
for correctness of the Elections
-   The poll will be anonymous using the standard poll capability of 
YahooGroups. After the poll is closed, the system will generate automatically the 
results, so there is no possibility to "tamper" with the results. 
-   The poll will be created on the general JEDI mailing list 
([email protected])
-   The poll will be open for a week to ensure high participation;
-   We will run a test before the real elections; so all members will be able 
to make themselves familiar with the polling feature of Yahoo groups.
-   Elections will be decided by simple majority, with minimum of 50 valid 
votes. If we don't have 50 valid votes, the election will be repeated, and if 
there is still no result, the Steering Team will decide on the new Director
-   If there is only one candidate, s/he has to receive minimum of 51 valid 
votes. If s/he won't receive it, the election will be repeated, and if there is 
still no result, the Steering Team will decide on the new Director
-   In case the newly elected person does not do their job as expected (or 
resigns for personal reasons), the Steering Team selects a temporary Director, 
if needed, till the reminder of the cadency.

Best wishes,

Alan C. Moore
Director 2004-2005



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