On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Koen Martens wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:42:58PM -0700, James Couzens wrote:
Now all we need is a list of members proposed for the board, and some
sort of voting mechanism. For those of you familiar with the North
American political methods, please forget everything you know about it.
What I am proposing is not a bloody popularity contest. I don't care if
you hate someone being proposed for this working group, you will do your
utmost to make choices that will best benefit the goals, and not choose
someone just because you like them, or overlook someone because you do
not particularly care for them. If someone's heart is in the right
place, and motives are true to the aforementioned charter, you should
give them due consideration.
So, any volunteers? I'm way too busy already with spf atm..
Let me add that these board members should be neutral enough not to
arouse discontent in the community...
Voting is difficult to do when you don't have an official legal body of
members. Closest we can do is IETF-like approach with some of the people
active on the mail list becoming electors. Here is how I propose it to
work:
1. Once per year a call is made for those who have been involved in spf
development on spf-discuss mail list and made at least 20 posts per month
in 6 of the previous 12 months to surve on nomination comittee. Of the
people who volunteer, 9 are selected at random (by mettod that can be
verified by all, i.e. stocks like IETF uses) to surve on nomination
comittee.
2. Once a year a call is made for volunteers (nor necessarily part of spf)
to surve on the board. Nomination comittee is responsible for initial
talks with those people to make sure they are capable of representing SPF
community and thn makes introduction of their biography to special
election mailing list and solicits comments on who of the persons who
are being considers can surve SPF community better. Nomination comitee
responsibility is to decide based on these comments who will be chosen
for next year.
3. My preferense is to have elections every 6 month for one position on
the board with total of 4 people on the board elected this way (so each
position is for 2 years) plus one position of chair for long-term
(election say every 3 years) with slightly different election procedures
where 4 other people on the board also get involved with nomination
comittee on making decision who it would be.
I'm willing to write up a draft if you agree with above in general.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net