Hi guys, On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 01:57 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Cor Nouws schrieb: > >>> Has been considered that this leads to a situation where each year > >>> people have to get used to the tasks, the other board members etc. so > >>> that maybe it is a bit inefficient?
This is fairly normal, and there is usually both change and continuity in things like the GNOME board. Also, old-timers are usually around and willing to help out mentoring / getting people up-to-speed. > >> Well, that is a good question. My personal take was at first for a 2 > >> years mandate. Then some others thought that 6 months would be good. I > >> sliced the apple into two :) I like a year-long term; it seems a good balance. > > In line with this, I would propose split elections: Appr. 50% of the > > seats each year. > +1 So - I havn't got to looking at this in detail yet; but I strongly recommend a 'fair' voting scheme - such as used by GNOME - ie. STV. This makes it very difficult for a contributor with 51% of the votes to get 100% of the seats [ which 1st past the post assures ]. However - the obvious benefits of STV are really watered down by a smaller electorate due to rounding errors; obviously, if (using STV) you elect one person at a time, you have some of the first-past-the-post problems. Then, there is the admin overhead of elections, and the problems of getting people to vote more regularly. Thus, overall - I would strongly recommend a single, big vote, once per year to elect everyone - and not worry about the continuity issues: they tend to fix themselves. The electorate tends to value such things as "experience" in the candidate's statements. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***