Re: Time for Election of Director

At 13:31 4/15/2005, [email protected], wrote:
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>Colleagues,
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>   It is that time of year again, time to elect a Project JEDI Director for 
>2005-2006.  The established calendar is as follows:
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>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

         ^^^^ Would someone please post the code that allows
              one to travel backwards in time?


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