"Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org> writes: >> Jim Grisanzio wrote: >>> Will the OGB be publishing guidelines and a schedule for the 2008 >>> elections some time soon? I think after the holidays the community will >>> need to start thinking seriously about potential candidates and issues. >> >> We haven't discussed it yet, but if we follow the same schedule as last >> year, we'd need to be ready to start taking nominations mid-February, >> for an election in March: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/OGB_Election_Status/#electioncalendar >> >> The only thing I know of to do before then is to have the Core Contributor >> rolls up-to-date - we may want to mail the facilitators in January to ensure >> they've named any Core Contribs that they want to have voting rights in the >> election. > > One moment please. > > Can we run a quick knee-jerk mailist poll to see if anyone even wants > an election? I am pretty happy with the way things are and the current > OGB members are all top notch[1] in my books. Why fix things that are > not broken? >
If people want the OGB to remain, people will re-elect them, if they choose to restand. I'm not even sure (and I haven't looked), that there is the option of avoiding one. -- Rich
