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 Design" http://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-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )