Hello all, I would like to nominate myself for the "Lang" seat in the next Community Council.
I will be available if anyone has questions during the presentations period. Best Regards, Charles-H.Schulz, Lead of the Native-Language Confederation, OpenOffice.org Le Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:47:48 -0400, Louis Suarez-Potts <louis.suarez-po...@sun.com> a écrit : > > All: > > A new election cycle for the Community Council begins now. We, the > Council members, hope that we can meet the new members in Orvieto, > Italy, at OOoCon 2009 early this November. To do that, however, we > may have to bend the timing rules a little and accelerate things > when possible. But for now..... > > This election cycle inaugurates a new Community Council. Not only > will we have one more member (to 10) but what we do has changed over > the year and we have now a greater ability to promote OpenOffice.org > around the world. Being part of the Council is to be part of the > governing board of what is widely understood to be one of the most > important Free and Open Source Software projects in the world. We > urge you to join us. > > > **Call for Nominations** > > On behalf of the Community Council, I would like to announce the new > round of elections for the Council and start the process by asking > the OpenOffice.org Community members to nominate those they think > would best contribute both to the Council and to the OpenOffice.org > Community. > > You may nominate yourself. We define membership in our Guidelines. > [0] This election cycle, one of several, begins with this call for > nominations. After a week, candidates will present themselves and > then we will vote. We detail all this in the Election Process wiki. > > A copy of this message will be posted > tohttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/council/items/call_for_nominations_20091013 > . > > *** The period for nominations ends 24:00 UTC 20 October.*** > > > **About the Council** > > The Council is our governing board and among other things, it helps > resolve conflict among projects and people and develop guidelines > for the smooth operation and growth of the Community. Our charter > explains what we can and cannot do.[1] The current members are > lighted on the Council's home page. [2] > > Until now, the Council's work has been fairly quiet and its scope > limited. But as the OOo project has matured and grown, our focus has > evolved. For instance, we now have in place procedures for budgeting > and allocating funds for a variety of Community-sponsored events and > doings. (These funds derive from donations given by users as they > download OpenOffice.org or otherwise independent expressions of > support and satisfaction; the funds are the Community's, held in > trust by the Council.) > > For this cycle, two standing Council members need to be replaced and > one fresh member to be elected. > > * Sophie Gautier and André Schnabel, both exemplary contributors to > the Project and Council and members of OpenOffice.org almost since > its inception, have resigned, effective upon their replacement. I do > not think that we, the Council and the Community, can thank them > enough for their achievements in makingOpenOffice.org the community > and global force that it is. My thanks to them both. > > > **Rules** > > The rules for the process are detailed in a wiki on the subject. [3] > This election inaugurates a new Council, as the number of members > has changed, from nine to ten, as has their characterization. > > Several categories of OpenOffice.org contributors make up the > Council membership. Those categories cover the breadth of > OpenOffice.org. All but one, the permanent Sun representative, are > elected by community vote. In this cycle, one of the Native Language > Confederation Representative (aka "Lang") seats (there are two) is up > for election. As well, we are asking for nominations for one Code > Contributor Representative and one Product Development Representative. > > ** The point of the categories of representatives is to ensure that > the breadth of OpenOffice.org is represented and that its key > constituencies find a voice on the Council. We are not saying nor do > we wish to imply that you can only nominate and vote for someone in > your constituency. Rather, we hope and anticipate that the work done > by developers, marketers, translators, document writers, localizers, > business people and so many of the other contributors constituting > our varied constituencies is represented on the Council. We will > thus strive to promote the election process on the relevant public > lists, as I detail below.** > > The nomination process starts now and ends 20 October (24:00 UTC). > Nominations and the attendant discussions should be conducted on > popular public lists, such as disc...@openoffice.org, > d...@openoffice.org and so on. > > We will be using tried and true technology for the actual voting: > the Survey machine; only Community Members will be allowed to vote. > Results will be posted in accordance with the published Election > Process; the address will be on the Council wiki, as well as sent to > the various lists below. > > The details for the process demand attention and we ask that you > spend some time going over the Election Process wiki. > > * As I mentioned above, we are hoping to conclude this cycle by > early November. That will mean shortening part of the process a > little, but which part has not been determined yet. If we cannot > shorten the process and still keep everything satisfactory, then we > won't. > > * Note: We have yet to identify our observers but for the purposes > of this election, I shall serve as commissary. > > This announcement will be posted to the relevant public lists, as > detailed in the Election Process wiki: d...@openoffice.org, > d...@native_lang.openoffice.org, disc...@openoffice.org as well as > d...@l10n.openoffice.organd project_le...@openoffice.org. > > > Regards, > > Louis > > [0] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html > [1] > http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#PowersoftheCouncil > [2] > http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers > [3] > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal > > > > -- > Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > OpenOffice.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
