Jonathan, thank you for bringing this nomination and selection task to
the attention of the uPortal developers.
> I would appreciate one of you picking up the ball and taking the next
step.
uPortal committers:
I see this going one of two directions, either fine. One is that,
Apache-style, we arrive at happy consensus as to whom the two
uPortal-developer-selected steering committee members will be. I see
that Cris Holdorph and Drew Wills have already spoken up along these
lines. Additional momentum could result in a feeling of consensus.
Enough +1s and no objections to Cris's proposal, and we've had our
vote. It's not totally implausible that this approach could work for a
small community such as ours. And I think Eric Dalquist would make a
particularly excellent steering committee representative.
Another direction we may need to go here is a more formal process of
nominations and voting. In order to go that route we'd need to
bootstrap some rules.
Here's what I propose as a framework for voting:
1) uPortal committers may post nominations to this uportal-dev@ list,
with the same deadline for nominations as that for the stakeholder
nominations. That is, nominations must be posted to the list by 5:00 PM
EDT (GMT-4) on Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
2) We then vote, on the uportal-dev@ list, with each committer invited
to cast one vote for each open position (that is, in the present case,
two votes). Voting closes on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 (to comport
with "results announced soon after Wednesday, September 5, 2007").
3) The top two vote recipients as of the election deadline are
recognized as the uPortal developer representatives to the steering
committee.
4) The uportal committers look to the JA-SIG Elections Committee to
moderate this process, decide any election issues that may arise.
I would look to the steering committee itself once instituted to
establish some procedures around future elections, handling future
committee vacancies, etc.
So, two questions:
1) Is there interest in pursuing Cris's nomination of myself and Eric
Dalquist to be the uPortal developer representatives to the uPortal
project steering committee, such that a more formal vote is not
necessary? +1s and/or objections to that approach would be helpful. If
anyone has the objection "I'd prefer we have a more formal vote than
look for less formal consensus", I think that's worth hearing and would
be a good reason to go the more formal vote route.
2) If a more formal vote is necessary, are the above rules supported by
the participants? Are they sufficient? Discussion towards consensus on
the rules here may be helpful.
Andrew
Jonathan Markow wrote:
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
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