Re: [ZF] Announcement: 2010 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
Chris McDonough <[email protected]>
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Gah, sorry for the multilist cross-post, this should have gone to the foundation list only. - C Chris McDonough wrote: > I nominate Tres Seaver. > > - C > > Tres Seaver wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> (apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the >> whole Zope community). >> >> The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2010 >> general meeting of the foundation will be held on Wednesday, 24 February >> 2010, at 17:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the >> following channel: >> >> irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation >> >> Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in >> which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in >> accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. >> >> >> Summary >> - ------- >> >> - - Nominations open via the [email protected] mailing list until >> Friday, 2010-01-29. >> >> - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, >> 2010-02-03 through Friday, 2010-02-19. >> >> - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, >> using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software. >> >> - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Wednesday, 2010-02-24. >> >> >> Procedure for Elections >> - ----------------------- >> >> The procedure for the elections is as follows: >> >> - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the >> board's announcment on the [email protected] maling list. >> Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2010-01-29, 23:00 UTC. >> >> - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new >> mailman list, 'zf-elections-2010', and approve all ZF members to post >> to the list.. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation >> members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list >> archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board. >> >> - - On Wednesday, 2010-02-03, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing >> the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, >> with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. >> The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the >> 'zf-elections-2010' list. >> >> - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain >> open until Friday, 2010-02-19, 23:00 UTC. >> >> - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as >> "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the >> members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the >> Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election >> results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be >> held on Tuesday, 2009-02-23, 15:00 UTC. >> >> - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify >> all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking >> them for their willingness to serve. >> >> - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the >> announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the >> board. >> >> >> An online version of this announcement is available at: >> >> http://foundation.zope.org/news/2010_election_and_general_meeting/ >> >> >> References >> - ---------- >> >> [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf >> >> [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv >> >> [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek >> >> >> >> >> Tres. >> - -- >> =================================================================== >> Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] >> Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAktZ3V8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6sDQCfbV+M85FnxeiSypdy0WBHle1A >> 7+sAn2aZoP5pb0sqK4ir84d9rhm09HiO >> =urx1 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation >> > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )