At 04:50 AM 7/28/2007, Andrew Petro wrote:
Jonathan, thank you for bringing this nomination and selection task
to the attention of the uPortal developers.
> I would appreciate one of you picking up the ball and taking the next step.
uPortal committers:
I see this going one of two directions, either fine. One is that,
Apache-style, we arrive at happy consensus as to whom the two
uPortal-developer-selected steering committee members will be. I
see that Cris Holdorph and Drew Wills have already spoken up along
these lines. Additional momentum could result in a feeling of consensus.
Enough +1s and no objections to Cris's proposal, and we've had our
vote. It's not totally implausible that this approach could work
for a small community such as ours. And I think Eric Dalquist would
make a particularly excellent steering committee representative.
+1 for Eric and Andrew from me too.
Another direction we may need to go here is a more formal process of
nominations and voting. In order to go that route we'd need to
bootstrap some rules.
Here's what I propose as a framework for voting:
1) uPortal committers may post nominations to this uportal-dev@
list, with the same deadline for nominations as that for the
stakeholder nominations. That is, nominations must be posted to the
list by 5:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) on Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
2) We then vote, on the uportal-dev@ list, with each committer
invited to cast one vote for each open position (that is, in the
present case, two votes). Voting closes on Tuesday, September 4,
2007 (to comport with "results announced soon after Wednesday,
September 5, 2007").
3) The top two vote recipients as of the election deadline are
recognized as the uPortal developer representatives to the steering committee.
4) The uportal committers look to the JA-SIG Elections Committee to
moderate this process, decide any election issues that may arise.
I would look to the steering committee itself once instituted to
establish some procedures around future elections, handling future
committee vacancies, etc.
So, two questions:
1) Is there interest in pursuing Cris's nomination of myself and
Eric Dalquist to be the uPortal developer representatives to the
uPortal project steering committee, such that a more formal vote is
not necessary? +1s and/or objections to that approach would be
helpful. If anyone has the objection "I'd prefer we have a more
formal vote than look for less formal consensus", I think that's
worth hearing and would be a good reason to go the more formal vote route.
+1 for the informal vote, at least for this election. Of course, if
we start to get lots of nominations for other people that would
complicate things. If that happens, I suggest we use the formal
model that you've described. In other words, amend the formal vote
process such that if at the end of the nomination process there are
only as many people nominated for which there are vacancies, and the
nominees have not received a -1, a formal vote is not necessary.
2) If a more formal vote is necessary, are the above rules supported
by the participants? Are they sufficient? Discussion towards
consensus on the rules here may be helpful.
Andrew
Jonathan Markow wrote:
Yesterday the JA-SIG Election Committee distributed a Call for
Nominations announcing the start of an election cycle for two board
director positions and three uPortal Project Steering Committee
stakeholder positions. Information about the steering committee,
the elections, and other governance-related items can be found at
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/JA-SIG+Governance.
The steering committee model calls for two developers, to be
selected by the group of current committers, to serve on the
committee. This selection isn't governed by a board-defined
election process. It's left up to you to determine how to best
choose the two developer representatives.
The formal election process for directors and stakeholders will
take approximately six weeks, starting with yesterday's
announcement. I'd like to encourage you folks to begin your own
process now so that the developer representatives can be announced
concurrently with the stakeholders and board rep. At that point we
should be ready to go with a first steering committee meeting
(which likely will be via telephone). I will also participate in
an ex officio capacity as Acting JA-SIG Executive Director.
The wiki documentation about the uPortal Project Steering Committee
is fairly skeletal and that's intentional. This is our first
experience with a governing committee of this type, and, while we
have planned and vetted the concept for a number of months, we all
are nevertheless going to be experiencing it for the first
time. Our expectation is that it will need some tweaking along the
way, and we regard it as a work-in-progress to be refined as we
collectively figure out what works and what doesn't.
I would appreciate one of you picking up the ball and taking the
next step. I'll make myself available to answer any questions
either by email or by conference call, and I know the rest of the
board will extend the same offer.
Best of luck with your selection process. We're looking forward to
bringing it all together.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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