[Zope] [ZF] Announcement: 2010 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the whole Zope community). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2010 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 17:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - --- - - Nominations open via the foundat...@zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2010-01-29. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2010-02-03 through Friday, 2010-02-19. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using Meek and Warrent STV method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Wednesday, 2010-02-24. Procedure for Elections - --- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundat...@zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2010-01-29, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2010', and approve all ZF members to post to the list.. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the tellers appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2010-02-03, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2010' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2010-02-19, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as tellers. The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2009-02-23, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to seat the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2010_election_and_general_meeting/ References - -- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- === Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software Excellence by Designhttp://palladion.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktZ3V8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6sDQCfbV+M85FnxeiSypdy0WBHle1A 7+sAn2aZoP5pb0sqK4ir84d9rhm09HiO =urx1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] [ZF] Announcement: 2010 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
I nominate Tres Seaver. - C Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the whole Zope community). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2010 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 17:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - --- - - Nominations open via the foundat...@zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2010-01-29. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2010-02-03 through Friday, 2010-02-19. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using Meek and Warrent STV method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Wednesday, 2010-02-24. Procedure for Elections - --- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundat...@zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2010-01-29, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2010', and approve all ZF members to post to the list.. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the tellers appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2010-02-03, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2010' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2010-02-19, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as tellers. The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2009-02-23, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to seat the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2010_election_and_general_meeting/ References - -- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- === Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software Excellence by Designhttp://palladion.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktZ3V8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6sDQCfbV+M85FnxeiSypdy0WBHle1A 7+sAn2aZoP5pb0sqK4ir84d9rhm09HiO =urx1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation mailing list foundat...@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
