All,
Nominations are now open for candidates for the Community Contributor
Representative (CCR) to the Community Council. Nominations will
commence immediately, today, 10 June 2005 and last for one week,
ending 17 June 2005.
* What is the CCR? He or she is the at-large community representative
to the Council, which is OOo's governing body. The Council (also
called CC) sets policy, resolves disputes, and so on. The CCR would
ideally present issues to the CC that the community at large finds
important, as well as otherwise help the community get its voice
heard by the Council. The term is for 6 months (more or less) and
there is not that much work required, no more than a few hours a
month, mostly for IRC meetings and e-mail discussions.
* Who is eligible? Any registered member of OpenOffice.org who has
demonstrated a commitment to the project and is known by the
community but is not an Accepted Projects lead or co-lead. (Accepted
Projects are those listed at <http://projects.openoffice.org/
accepted.html>). A good candidate would be someone who can advocate
on behalf of endusers but who is also (at least minimally) informed
of the technical and logistical issues involved in producing
OpenOffice.org.
The position can be interesting and even fun. Meetings are seldom
boring and you do get an insight into how OOo is governed. There are
a lot of policy issues coming up and this is your chance to affect
their outcome.
* How do we proceed? The charter creating the Council is fairly
clear. (See http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html) The
various project leads select 2-3 candidates from the names submitted
by the community. The candidates are then voted on by the community.
"Community" means registered OpenOffice.org members.
Here are the groundrules for the process:
* It's a two-week, three-step process.
• Seven days to obtain nominations from the community, three (or
so) days for the leads to select candidates, four days for voting on
the candidates. Voting will be done via the Web.
* All nominees must be registered OOo members.
* You may nominate yourself.
* No campaigning. If you are not already known by the community,
then you probably ought not to consider standing for election.
* Send a brief (75 word) abstract stating who you are and what you do
for OOo to [EMAIL PROTECTED] After discussion by the
project leads, we will post the ones selected to the Council homepage
(<http://council.openoffice.org/>) and post notices to
announce@openoffice.org, discuss@openoffice.org,
users@openoffice.org, dev@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lang.openoffice.org, and [EMAIL PROTECTED], and ask that
all Project Leads inform their communities of the election.
* If elected, congratulations! :-) The next Council meeting will be
held in July. After that we will try to adhere to a fortnightly (once
every two weeks) schedule.
Cheers,
Louis
PS Note that this is but one of several other elections being run
concurrently.
--
Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org
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