[LUAU] LUAU election process - Draft
Doug Stanfield
DOUGS at oceanic.com
Wed Jun 16 20:23:24 PDT 1999
You're right, an ommission in what we discussed last night. A proposal for
a two year term, max of two terms, was made for the President, but there was
no discussion of this or terms for the others. I would suggest that two
years should work but that we stagger by having a one year first term for at
least two of the positions. This would lead to yearly elections for either
two or three positions.
In regards to putting all the bylaws in place before leadership elections,
the consensus was the council should draft the bylaws for presentation to
the membership. We would then vote on the bylaws. This means the issues
before us currently are limited to making sure the voting process works and
there is enough definition of the council to elect to those positions.
-Doug-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachary P. Taylor [mailto:ztaylor at aloha.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 4:56 PM
> To: luau at luau.hi.net
> Subject: RE: [LUAU] LUAU election process - Draft
>
>
> Where length of terms discussed? Not to cause trouble, but I
> would suggest
> that the by-laws be in place, before anyone leadership is
> nominated / voted
> upon.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net
> [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> > Ronald L Fox
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 4:34 PM
> > To: luau at luau.hi.net
> > Subject: [LUAU] LUAU election process - Draft
> >
> >
> > I wanted to expand on the nomination/election process that we
> > discussed and agreed on at the June 15th meeting. Ron Willis
> > and I conferred by phone today to try to firm up the process
> > and refresh each other's memory of the agreed-upon mechanics.
> > Here's what we came up with:
> >
> > 1) The organizational structure of LUAU will initially be composed
> > of the traditional officers (President, Vice President,
> Secretary,
> > Treasurer) plus a Webmaster who will be members of the Executive
> > Committee. One of the first tasks of the Executive Committee
> > after election will be to draft the Bylaws of LUAU which will
> > be presented to the membership for a vote. The Bylaws will
> > specify the roles of the officers and other details. See the
> > Bylaws of the Linux Users of Los Angeles as an example:
> > http://www.lula.org/bylaws.html
> >
> > 2) There will be one class of member in LUAU which will be a voting
> > member with 1 vote per member. Qualifications for
> membership will
> > be refined in the Bylaws. Members must register for membership
> > with their real name and voting e-mail address. The list of
> > members will not be public (to prevent the e-mail addresses from
> > being sucked up by spammers) but will be available to those who
> > are counting ballots to ensure that each ballot is received from
> > a registered member and no more than once from each member. If
> > time permits, the registration process will be set up with a
> > Web form on the official LUAU site at http://luau.hi.net. If
> > the form based process is not in place for the first election,
> > an E-mail form will be posted to the mailing list with the
> > reply-to set to Ron Willis and Joe Schuller who have agreed to
> > independently receive and count votes for the first election.
> > Other details of membership such as how long a member may remain
> > such without voting activity will be specified in the Bylaws.
> >
> > 3) We will hold an election for LUAU officers now with nominations
> > commencing immediately as follows:
> > a) You may nominate yourself or another member for a specific
> > position as listed above.
> > b) Your nomination must be made publicly by a posting to the
> > LUAU mailing list. (Note: Do not send your nominations to
> > Ron Willis or Joe Schuller or anyone else privately.)
> > c) Your nomination posting subject should begin with the word
> > "NOMINATION" to allow for easy collation of the list. If
> > you are proposing a NEW nomination (and not just commenting
> > on a previous nomination, make sure that the subject begins
> > with "NOMINATION" and not "RE: [LUAU] NOMINATION".
> > d) All nominations must be accepted by the nominee via public
> > declaration to the E-mail list. Please begin the subject
> > of your acceptance or declination with "ACCEPT" or "DECLINE"
> > as appropriate. If you accept, you may wish to introduce
> > yourself to the members, make speeches, etc. If you decline
> > you may wish to explain why you can't serve, or not. The
> > deadline for posting a nomination to the list is 21 June 1999,
> > Monday at 23:59 HST (as received by news.hi.net).
> > e) If you are nominated by someone else and do not accept as
> > in 3d) by 22 June 1999, Tuesday at 21:00 HST, your nomination
> > will be considered as declined.
> > f) I will compile the nominations, cross-check the
> acceptances and
> > declinations and submit a list to Ron Willis and Joe Schuller
> > by 22 June 1999, Tuesday at 23:59 HST for them to review for
> > accuracy.
> > g) An official ballot will be prepared and posted to the list by
> > 24 June 1999, Thursday at 23:59 HST. The reply-to header of
> > this posting will contain Ron Willis' and Joe Schuller's
> > e-mail address ONLY. There will be a place on the ballot
> > for you to fill in your full name and voting e-mail address
> > (if you have more than one address, pick one to use as your
> > voting address) and boxes to mark with an "X" for your vote
> > for each office.
> > h) The deadline for submission of ballots was not determined at
> > the meeting but we propose one week, ending 1 July 1999,
> > Thursday at 23:59 HST unless anyone objects.
> > i) The votes will be tallied by Ron Willis and Joe Schuller
> > independently, the results compared by them, any discrepancies
> > resolved and the results announced by a public posting to
> > the list by 3 July 1999, Saturday at 23:59 HST.
> >
> > Please note that the subject of this message contains the
> word "Draft".
> > If there is no objection to my statement of the process, it will be
> > reissued to the list with "Draft" replaced by "Approved" and the
> > provisional deadline for ballot submission made official. If I've
> > overlooked, misstated or otherwise botched it up or if anyone that
> > wasn't at the meeting has objections, please state them to the list
> > for quick discussion and resolution.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron Fox
> >
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