The polling system is now open for the 2008 Board election, as well as the determination of two proposed amendments to the Constitution and the solicitation of input for community priorities. Core Contributors from all Community Groups are eligible to participate in the poll. The polling period is from 00:00 PDT 10 March and will close at 23:59 PDT 24 March.
A sample ballot is included below. Further information about the candidates and the amendments may be found at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_Status/ See http://poll.opensolaris.org for poll status and links to instructions. Eligible voters will receive reminder mail at intervals during the polling period. Again, concerns or questions regarding the poll content should be shared on ogb-discuss; problems with the poll mechanism on website-discuss. - Stephen ---- $ ssh poll.opensolaris.org Last login: Mon Mar 10 16:58:12 2008 from sca-ea-fw-1.sun opensolaris.org Vote Recorder (poll) You may enter "help" or "quit" at any prompt. Links to further instructions are provided at http://poll.opensolaris.org/ USER: Joe Contributor (jjjcon) GRANT: CORE CONTRIBUTOR, contributions, expiring Mon Feb 16 10:12:15 2009 CURRENT TIME: Mon Mar 10 17:01:47 2008 PDT POLL 3: Board Election 2008/Constitutional Amendments/Community Priorities To participate in this ballot, you must be a Core Contributor to one or more Community Groups in the OpenSolaris Community. The ballot consists of 4 questions: two dealing with amendments to the Constitution, one to elect a Governing Board for 2008, and one to determine community priorities for 2008. More information about this poll may be found at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_Status/ Again, you may enter "help" or "quit" at any time. QUESTION 3.1: ("Amend_Amendment") Do you approve the following amendment to Article IX of the Constitution ("Amendment")? "This Constitution and its bylaws may be altered, amended, added to, or repealed by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of record during Annual and Special meetings as defined in 5.2 and 5.3, provided that the proposed deletions and additions, when applied to the Constitution, will result in a new Constitution that remains in complete compliance with the OpenSolaris Charter. The complete text of the proposed deletions and additions must: * be approved within an OpenSolaris Community Group using the Majority voting rule in article 8.4 prior to being delivered to the full Membership for adoption. * be delivered in a notice by electronic mail to the Members no less than ten (10) days prior to any vote on said deletions and additions. " 1 - No, I do not approve. ('No') 2 - Yes, I approve. ('Yes') This question is being resolved by a first-past-the-post count. Please enter your single selection, or "abstain" to register an abstention. RESPONSE 3.1 --> abstain QUESTION 3.2: ("Amend_Board") Do you approved the following amendment to Article VI of the Constitution ("Governing Board")? Addition to section 6.3: "Candidates for election shall publish 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. Candidates who before the start of voting do not publish such a statement and attest to its accuracy shall not be eligible for election. The Secretary of the OGB shall maintain a public register of OGB Members' interests." Addition to section 6.2: "OGB members upon change of corporate affiliation or other interests related to OpenSolaris, must notify the membership of the same when that change applies." 1 - Yes, I approve. ('Yes') 2 - No, I do not approve. ('No') This question is being resolved by a first-past-the-post count. Please enter your single selection, or "abstain" to register an abstention. RESPONSE 3.2 --> abstain QUESTION 3.3: ("Elect_Board") The participants below have been nominated as candidates to serve on a seven (7) member Board. The Board members shall be selected by single transferable vote. Accordingly, please submit an ordered list of the candidates, showing your preference by placing the most preferred candidate at the head of the list, followed by candidates of lower and lower preference. You may present a list of the entire slate, or a subset thereof. (The list is presented in random order.) 1 - Ken Mays ('kmays') 2 - Michelle Olson ('michelle') 3 - John Plocher ('plocher') 4 - Glynn Foster ('gman') 5 - John Beck ('jbeck') 6 - Brian Gupta ('brandorr') 7 - Ben Rockwood ('benr') 8 - John Sonnenschein[C ('error404') 9 - Peter Tribble ('ptribble') 10 - Michal Bielicki ('cypromis') 11 - Justin Erenkrantz ('jerenk') 12 - Al Hopper ('alhopper') 13 - Joerg Schilling ('joerg') 14 - Rich Teer ('rich') 15 - Dennis Clarke ('dclarke') 16 - Jim Grisanzio ('jimgris') 17 - Simon Phipps ('webmink') 18 - Stephen Lau ('stevel') 19 - Alan Coopersmith ('alanc') This question is being resolved by single transferable vote. Please enter a space separated list of your candidates, ordered by preference. You may omit candidates. You may enter "abstain" to register an abstention. RESPONSE 3.3 --> abstain QUESTION 3.4: ("Priorities") Which of the following items, presented in a randomized order, should be prioritized by the Governing Board in order to promote OpenSolaris and increase its developer mindshare? 1 - Reorganize the existing Community Group/Project organization ('Reorganize_Community') 2 - Deploy a public defect management system ('Defect_Mgmt') 3 - Deploy a public Request To Integrate (RTI) system ('RTI') 4 - Provide a SPARC-based kernel/project build facility ('SPARC_Build') 5 - Eliminate reliability issues with opensolaris.org web pages ('Reliability') 6 - Replace or remove Jive forum interface ('No_Jive') 7 - Create an infrastructure project to run opensolaris.org ('Infrastructure') 8 - Provide an x86/AMD64-based kernel/project build facility ('X64_Build') 9 - Deploy a public code review facility on opensolaris.org ('Code_Review') 10 - Deploy a public wiki on opensolaris.org ('Wiki') 11 - Replace opensolaris.org tools with an open source CMS or wiki ('New_CMS') 12 - Remove inactive Community Groups or Projects ('Remove_Inactive') This question is being resolved by single transferable vote. Please enter a space separated list of your candidates, ordered by preference. You may omit candidates. You may enter "abstain" to register an abstention. RESPONSE 3.4 --> abstain VERIFY: Your ballot is: Amend_Board: [ -abstain- ] Priorities: [ -abstain- ] Amend_Amendment: [ -abstain- ] Elect_Board: [ -abstain- ] COMMIT BALLOT (y/n) --> n DISCARDED -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
