Simon Phipps wrote:
> I received the following comment from a group of community members:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>>> My team read through the constitution together and had the following
>>> comments:
>>>
>>> 1.2 Roles
>>>
>>> It is not clear how Leaders are "bootstrapped". Leaders appoint other
>>> leaders but who appoints the initial leaders.
The initial leaders of a new community group will be specified via the
procedures to be spelled out in the "OGB Group Lifecycle Administrative
Procedures" document, but would probably be similar to the current process
of the people proposing to create a new group including a list of initial
leaders in their proposal.
>>> 1.3 Group Management Processes
>>>
>>> The constitution says that the process for assigning roles is based upon
>>> a meritocracy but there is no specific mechanism to guarantee his.
That is part of what the "OGB Group Management Guidelines" should address,
as spelled out in that section.
>>> 2. Community Elections
>>>
>>> We noted that there is no mention of an appeals or recount process or
>>> any other recourse if an election is disputed.
I don't think we have any such provisions in the current constitution (I
can't check at the moment due to opensolaris.org's network problems), or
have needed any before - this also seems like something that could be part
of the election process/policies instead of the constitution.
>>> 2.1.2 Quorum
>>>
>>> There was some question about the working of the sentence:
>>>
>>> "Quorum for an Election shall be met by one-third of the total
>>> Electorate Group members participating in the election."
>>>
>>> while it was generally understood, it is felt that it could be worded
>>> more
>>> clearly, e.g.:
>>>
>>> "Quorum for an Election shall be met by the participation in the
>>> election of one-third of the total Electorate Group members"
Sounds good to me.
>>> 3.3 Candidates
>>>
>>> We weren't too sure on this one but we had a question about whether
>>> it would be possible to bias an election. An individual could
>>> nominate themselves and then nominate other candidates who would
>>> become voting members. Those other members could then vote for the
>>> original candidate.
This doesn't make sense, as it seems to confuse nominations for OGB
membership vs. nominations for electorate membership. If an individual
got other people who are qualified for membership in the electorate to
join the electorate and participate, then that seems like a good thing.
>>> Finally, there were some typos found:
Those all seem like fixes that should be applied.
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