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Feb 1, 2013, 4:49 PM
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Re: Announcement: 2013 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
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Hi Tres,
On 2013-02-01 16:19:55 +0000, Tres Seaver said:
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> (please forgive the crosspost: we need this announcement to be read as
> widely as possible).
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> The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2013
> general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 22 March
> 2013, at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the
> following channel:
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> irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation
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> Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in
> which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in
> accordance with the foundation bylaws[1].
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> Summary
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> - - Nominations open via the foundation [at] zope mailing list until
> Friday, 2013-02-15.
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> - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday,
> 2013-02-20 through Friday, 2013-03-08.
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> - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board,
> using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software.
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> - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Friday, 2013-03-22.
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> Procedure for Elections
> - -----------------------
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> The procedure for the elections is as follows:
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> - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the
> board's announcment on the foundation [at] zope maling list.
> Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2013-02-15, 23:00 UTC.
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> - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new
> mailman list, 'zf-elections-2013', and approve all ZF members to post
> to the list. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation
> members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list
> archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board.
>
> - - On Wednesday, 2013-02-20, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing
> the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot,
> with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply.
> The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the
> 'zf-elections-2013' list.
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> - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain
> open until Friday, 2013-03-08, 23:00 UTC.
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> - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as
> "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the
> members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the
> Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election
> results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be
> held on Tuesday, 2013-03-20, 15:00 UTC.
>
> - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify
> all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking
> them for their willingness to serve.
>
> - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the
> announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the
> board.
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>
> An online version of this announcement is available at:
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> http://foundation.zope.org/news/2013_election_and_general_meeting
I get a 404 on this link FWIW
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> References
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> [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf
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> [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv
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> [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek
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> Tres.
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