Yesterday the JA-SIG Election Committee distributed a Call for Nominations announcing the start of an election cycle for two board director positions and three uPortal Project Steering Committee stakeholder positions. Information about the steering committee, the elections, and other governance-related items can be found at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/JA-SIG+Governance.
The steering committee model calls for two developers, to be selected by the group of current committers, to serve on the committee. This selection isn't governed by a board-defined election process. It's left up to you to determine how to best choose the two developer representatives. The formal election process for directors and stakeholders will take approximately six weeks, starting with yesterday's announcement. I'd like to encourage you folks to begin your own process now so that the developer representatives can be announced concurrently with the stakeholders and board rep. At that point we should be ready to go with a first steering committee meeting (which likely will be via telephone). I will also participate in an ex officio capacity as Acting JA-SIG Executive Director. The wiki documentation about the uPortal Project Steering Committee is fairly skeletal and that's intentional. This is our first experience with a governing committee of this type, and, while we have planned and vetted the concept for a number of months, we all are nevertheless going to be experiencing it for the first time. Our expectation is that it will need some tweaking along the way, and we regard it as a work-in-progress to be refined as we collectively figure out what works and what doesn't. I would appreciate one of you picking up the ball and taking the next step. I'll make myself available to answer any questions either by email or by conference call, and I know the rest of the board will extend the same offer. Best of luck with your selection process. We're looking forward to bringing it all together. Thanks, Jonathan -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
