OGB Members, Here is a final version of the 2010 Record Date notice proposal.
It needs 4 OGB votes in favor. Cheers, Jim +++ ======================================================================== The 2010 OpenSolaris Record Date is February 14, 2010. Electorate: 377 Majority: 189 Quorum: 126 ======================================================================== In preparation for the 2010 annual election, the OGB set February 14, 2010 as the Record Date. The Record Date is used to determine who is entitled to vote in the election (the Electorate), the Majority and the Quorum numbers. Ballot Measures need to be passed by a Majority of the Electorate and a Quorum of the Electorate must attend the Members Meeting. This is detailed in Article V. Sections 5.7 through 5.9 of the Constitution. Furthermore due to recent changes in how membership records are managed, the OGB determined that in order to ensure a successful electronic election, Members needed to authenticate their OpenSolaris account by the Record Date. Election notices were sent to the Community Group Core Contributers and Community Group Facilitators February 1st 2010[1] and February 4th 2010[2]. An election notice was also posted on the home opensolaris.org webpage[3]. The notices provided detailed information on who is eligible to vote, how to authenticate and check OpenSolaris accounts and how to add and renew Core Contributor grants. As of February 14, 2010 and after tabulation on February 20, 2010, the OpenSolaris Core Contributors with valid grants and authenticated OpenSolaris user accounts was: 377. However, the Website team notified the OGB on February 25, 2010 that they could not restrict Core Contributor account authentication, and several Core Contributors had authenticated since February 20th which could potentially impact the election. ======================================================================== In order to clarify this situation, and to ensure that Core Contributors are not disenfranchised. The OGB has decided that 1) all Core Contributors that have valid grants as of the 2010 Record Date can vote in the election after authenticating their account; and 2) the 2010 Record Date majority and quorum values will stand unless the number of votes cast exceeds the electorate total, in which case they will be recalculated based on the final vote total. ======================================================================== More detail on the 2010 Record Date can be found on ogb-discuss[4]. Sincerely, 2009-2010 OGB John Beck Valerie Fenwick Michelle Olson (Chair) Simon Phipps John Plocher Peter Tribble (Vice-Chair) Jim Walker Deirdre Straughan (Secretary) ---- [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/facilitation-discuss/2010-February/000060.html [2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/facilitation-discuss/2010-February/000062.html [3] http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ [4] http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=124925&tstart=0
