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Subject: [tdf-announce] Election Announcement for The Document
Foundation Board of Directors
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:54:31 +0100
From: Simon Phipps <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Having been asked by the Steering Committee and Membership Committee to act as
the Elections Officer for The Document Foundation, it is my pleasure to
announce that we will now conduct the election of a Board of Directors. This
election is following the Bylaws [1] of our Foundation. The term is one year
commencing from the date the Foundation is legally established.
There are seven (7) board seats that are to be filled during this election.
Three (3) additional deputies are to be selected, so the total of slots to be
filled by election is ten (10).
Members of The Document Foundation as of 2011-09-02 are eligible to vote in the
elections. Anyone who has made a contribution to The Document Foundation can
apply for membership by completing an application [2]. To vote, your membership
also needs to be valid at least until the end of the elections (2011-10-26).
Any eligible voter is also eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors. To
announce your candidacy, send a message to
[email protected] your full name, e-mail, corporate
affiliation (if any), and a description of your reasons for wanting to serve as
a director. Candidacies must be announced prior to 2011-09-30, 23:59 UTC.
All candidates should also send a summary of their candicacy announcement to
[email protected] - a compilation of the summaries will be
mailed to all registered voters several days prior to the elections. Summaries
should be no more than 75 words of continuous text (so no bullet lists or
multiple paragraphs) and must be received by the nomination deadline given
above.
All discussion related to the elections should be held on
[email protected] where Members are invited to ask questions to
one or all candidates. Instructions explaining how to vote will be sent via
e-mail to all eligible voters by
The 10 candidates voted for most as counted by a single transferable vote
system [3] will be elected, except that no more than two individuals affiliated
with any one corporation may be elected. Should more than two of the top ten
vote-getters be affiliated with the same company, only the two with the most
votes will be considered elected.
In the event of a tie for the final seat on the board or the final deputy slot,
the Membership Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible.
The Membership Committee will announce preliminary results as soon as possible
after the elections close, along with instructions on how to access the votes
archive and how to independently verify the vote count.
Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary results by e-mailing
[email protected] prior to 2011-10-26. The published decision of
the Membership Committee as to any challenge shall be final. Once any
challenges have been resolved, the Membership Committee shall announce the
final results.
Any questions regarding these procedures should be directed to the Membership
Committee by e-mail to [email protected] . The committee shall
have the power to make any necessary changes or clarifications to these rules
at any point during the elections.
[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
[2]
http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/application-for-tdf-community-membership/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
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Election Timeline (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC)
2011-08-23: Announcement of elections
2011-09-02: Freeze of membership applications, list of candidates opens.
2011-10-01: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements.
2011-10-03: Final list of candidates is published.
2011-10-07: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.
2011-10-17: Voting closes.
2011-10-20: Preliminary results are announced.
2011-10-26: Last day to challenge preliminary results.
2011-10-27: Announcement of final results
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This is a landmark in the history of The Document Foundation and I encourage
all Members to participate fully.
Regards
Simon
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Simon Phipps, Elections Officer
The Document Foundation
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