Hi OGB - Please review this election announcement, which covers the annual meeting.
Much thanks to Simon, who provided this text last year - I used it as a guide. I believe this can double as the notification of the new constitution. PROBLEM: we don't actually have an IRC bot set up yet...I've sent mail to website-discuss to see if they know how this was done last year. If anyone else knows, that would be great. This needs to be sent out by Thursday AM, but I wouldn't mind sending it sooner. Valerie To: opensolaris-announce, core-contrib-discuss, opensolaris-discuss, facilitation-discuss, ogb-discuss Subject: Annual Elections - PLEASE READ The OpenSolaris Elections are nearly here. The OGB has been working hard to get ready for them and we hope you'll be able to participate. Please read this email carefully and send and follow-up questions to ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org The calendar and summary of this information is available here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/2010 1. Eligibility to Vote Core Contributors in any community's electorate will have the right to vote. You can verify your eligibility by logging into http://auth.opensolaris.org . Select "Edit your account", then select "Collectives" on the left hand menu. If you have any unexpired Core Contributor grants, you are eligible and expected to vote. 2. Testing Polling Credentials To make sure voting is working for you, try out the test poll open until Feb 26, 2010 (0:00hrs PST). http://polls.opensolaris.org/ and select "Vote in Open Polls". 3. OGB Nominations Any OpenSolaris community member can be nominated to stand for election to the OGB - all you need is a valid log-in ID for OpenSolaris.org. Nominations, however, must be made by a Core Contributor and accepted by the candidate. Self nominations are acceptable and encouraged. More details can be found here: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=459949&tstart=0 4. New Constitution The OGB has had a long review period (starting September 2009), of the new draft for the constitution. We started with last year's draft and incorporated all of the feedback from the community. We believe this new document simplifies and clarifies the community governance to match our actual practice and realistic expectations. This does not require changes to the Charter. Please review the document here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/Proposed+Constitution 5. Meeting of Members Under the existing Constitution, we have to gather the voting membership on irc://irc.freenode.net/#opensolaris-meeting from noon PT Feb 25th until quorum is reached. Please log into the IRC channel and announce yourself in the format "Hello, I am <your name> and an OpenSolaris Core Contributor. My OpenSolaris ID is [<your ID>]" There is a bot monitoring the channel and recording these announcements as well as all channel discussion. Feel free to use the IRC channel to ask, or indeed answer, any questions about the election. The current OGB will be present throughout the meeting. Current and past OGB members can be identified as channel operators on the IRC channel. Valerie -- Sponsor me in the Breathe Easy Ride - 100 miles - June 26! Money raised goes to the American Lung Association: http://action.lungusa.org/goto/valerie
