Been on the phone for 10 mins. We meeting?
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> It's two days into the nomination period, and we've gotten zero
> nominations, probably because we haven't asked for any. This
> suggests two items for discussion at the OGB meeting today (for
> which I just posted a mostly blank agenda since none was posted
> yet):
>
> 1) We should appoint an election coordinator to be responsible
> for announcing each phase of the elections as we go forward
> and coordinating with the election system admins to make
> sure the voting mechanism is in place, so we don't keep
> falling into the trap of everyone assuming someone else will
> do it, and have a single person who knows it's their job to
> either do it or make sure someone else has agreed to do so.
> Our secretary would be a good choice, but I'm willing to do it
> as well if she's not available/interested.
>
> 2) Here's a draft announcement to send out for nominations, based
> on last years process. Comments? Improvements?
>
> -alan-
>
> The OpenSolaris Governing Board is now accepting nominations for
> candidates to run for the OGB term starting April 2009. Anyone
> registered with an account on the OpenSolaris.org website is
> eligible to be nominated, even if not currently recognized as a
> Core Contributor or Contributor to any existing community group.
>
> Nominations should be e-mailed to ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org
> (please make sure you either use the web forum or subscribe to
> the mailing list first to avoid getting caught in the
> spam-filter/moderation queue - use the forums or sign up at
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/discussions/ )
>
> Nominations must submitted by a current Core Contributor - those
> who are interested in running may nominate themselves if they are
> a Core Contributor already (see the current lists of Core Contributors
> under the Grants tab on http://poll.opensolaris.org/ ), or send
> mail to the mailing list asking for a Core Contributor to formally
> nominate them if they are not a Core Contributor.
>
> Those who are nominated by others must send mail to ogb-discuss
> accepting their nomination.
>
> All candidates will be required to submit a statement before the
> election containing "a list of their commercial affiliation, or other
> interests related to OpenSolaris, so that a voting member can understand
> the context from which they would act on the OGB and the likely biases
> they would bring."
>
> The deadline for submitting and accepting nominations will be
> 23:59 in the US/Pacific timezone on Monday, March 2. Statements
> from nominees are due before the start of voting, which will begin
> at 00:00 on Monday, March 9.
>
> Nominations and acceptances will be tracked during the nomination
> period using the OpenSolaris bugzilla at http://defect.opensolaris.org/
> in the "ogb" product under the "nominations" category.
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