Squeak Board Elections 2007

Previous Topic Next Topic
 
classic Classic list List threaded Threaded
4 messages Options
Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

Squeak Board Elections 2007

Daniel Vainsencher-2
Hi everyone, 2007 is growing near, and with it our elections - last
year's took place in February. There is no set time line yet, but one of
the conclusions from last time is that the elections take quite a bit of
time to unfold. So the beginning of the timeline is not very far off.

Before that happens, we might do well to consider how things went the
previous time, and what we should change. For example, in a thread
titled "Election results" Ron mentioned he would have preferred a bit
more campaigning for candidates (by themselves and by others), and some
agreed. I for one would certainly be happy if we had a significantly
higher ratio of candidates to positions this year.

Of course we now have a years worth of experience with one elected
board. Has this time affected how you think the elections should run?
has it affected what you think the board members you elect should do?

Dear Board - I'm sure both the voters and particularly potential
candidates would love to hear your point of view as well.

Now's the time to start talking about the elections.

Daniel Vainsencher
Elections team leader

Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

RE: Squeak Board Elections 2007

Ron Teitelbaum
Hi all,

I wrote up an article about voting:

http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/vote/ 

Thank you, Daniel, for getting the ball rolling.  There is a lot that still
needs to be done, and I hope that we can start a discussion about what the
community believes should be the next boards priorities.  This is our chance
to contribute to the structure of our community.  The voices and
participation of everyone is very important.  Although this can be a
difficult process, there is a lot of good that can come from it.  It is
worth the effort.

Ron Teitelbaum
President / Principal Software Engineer
US Medical Record Specialists
[hidden email]
Squeak Cryptography Team Leader
Squeak News Team Member
Squeak Representative with the Software Freedom Law Center
Squeak Elections Team Member


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:squeak-dev-
> [hidden email]] On Behalf Of Daniel Vainsencher
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:42 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Squeak Board Elections 2007
>
> Hi everyone, 2007 is growing near, and with it our elections - last
> year's took place in February. There is no set time line yet, but one of
> the conclusions from last time is that the elections take quite a bit of
> time to unfold. So the beginning of the timeline is not very far off.
>
> Before that happens, we might do well to consider how things went the
> previous time, and what we should change. For example, in a thread
> titled "Election results" Ron mentioned he would have preferred a bit
> more campaigning for candidates (by themselves and by others), and some
> agreed. I for one would certainly be happy if we had a significantly
> higher ratio of candidates to positions this year.
>
> Of course we now have a years worth of experience with one elected
> board. Has this time affected how you think the elections should run?
> has it affected what you think the board members you elect should do?
>
> Dear Board - I'm sure both the voters and particularly potential
> candidates would love to hear your point of view as well.
>
> Now's the time to start talking about the elections.
>
> Daniel Vainsencher
> Elections team leader
>



Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

Re: Squeak Board Elections 2007

Adrian Lienhard
In reply to this post by Daniel Vainsencher-2
Is there something written up about the goals and responsibilities of  
the board?

squeak.org pointed to http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation/ 
which seems to be the predecessor of http://
www.squeakfoundation.org/, which, however, seems quite out of date  
since it does not reflect the "newly" elected board.

Cheers,
Adrian


On Nov 15, 2006, at 19:42 , Daniel Vainsencher wrote:

> Hi everyone, 2007 is growing near, and with it our elections - last  
> year's took place in February. There is no set time line yet, but  
> one of the conclusions from last time is that the elections take  
> quite a bit of time to unfold. So the beginning of the timeline is  
> not very far off.
>
> Before that happens, we might do well to consider how things went  
> the previous time, and what we should change. For example, in a  
> thread titled "Election results" Ron mentioned he would have  
> preferred a bit more campaigning for candidates (by themselves and  
> by others), and some agreed. I for one would certainly be happy if  
> we had a significantly higher ratio of candidates to positions this  
> year.
>
> Of course we now have a years worth of experience with one elected  
> board. Has this time affected how you think the elections should  
> run? has it affected what you think the board members you elect  
> should do?
>
> Dear Board - I'm sure both the voters and particularly potential  
> candidates would love to hear your point of view as well.
>
> Now's the time to start talking about the elections.
>
> Daniel Vainsencher
> Elections team leader
>


Reply | Threaded
Open this post in threaded view
|

Re: Squeak Board Elections 2007

karl-8
Adrian Lienhard skrev:
> Is there something written up about the goals and responsibilities of
> the board?
>
> squeak.org pointed to http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation/ 
> which seems to be the predecessor of http://www.squeakfoundation.org/,
> which, however, seems quite out of date since it does not reflect the
> "newly" elected board.
Well, www.squeakfoundation.org is a quite new setup by Brad Fuller and
Ken Causey. Brad have just copied the pages from the old site over to
the new one. I guess the board will have to go trough the stuff there
and change it to reflect the current situation.

Sidenote:
I think there is a issue with persistency on Pier.
If you have any suggestions we will be happy to hear.
Karl

>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 19:42 , Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, 2007 is growing near, and with it our elections - last
>> year's took place in February. There is no set time line yet, but one
>> of the conclusions from last time is that the elections take quite a
>> bit of time to unfold. So the beginning of the timeline is not very
>> far off.
>>
>> Before that happens, we might do well to consider how things went the
>> previous time, and what we should change. For example, in a thread
>> titled "Election results" Ron mentioned he would have preferred a bit
>> more campaigning for candidates (by themselves and by others), and
>> some agreed. I for one would certainly be happy if we had a
>> significantly higher ratio of candidates to positions this year.
>>
>> Of course we now have a years worth of experience with one elected
>> board. Has this time affected how you think the elections should run?
>> has it affected what you think the board members you elect should do?
>>
>> Dear Board - I'm sure both the voters and particularly potential
>> candidates would love to hear your point of view as well.
>>
>> Now's the time to start talking about the elections.
>>
>> Daniel Vainsencher
>> Elections team leader
>>
>
>
>