On 5/15/20 8:32 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:55 AM Ish Sookun <ish.sookun@lasentinelle.mu> wrote:
Dear community members,
A call for the re-election of the openSUSE Board was made by openSUSE member Pierre Böckmann [1] on the 13th of March 2020.
The openSUSE Board election rules [2] state the following regarding "forced re-election",
« If 20 per cent or more of the openSUSE members require a new board, an election will be held for the complete elected Board seats. »
Therefore, the Election Committee is setting up an electronic petition whereby openSUSE members can state whether they support a re-election of the Board by casting a vote. The procedure will follow similar rules as the previous electronic elections.
openSUSE members [3] having an active membership will receive their voting link and credential on their member email alias. Once they log onto the voting platform they will be presented a question that asks:
"Are you in favour of a re-election of the Board?"
There will be only one answer to select and which states:
"Yes, I call for a re-election of the openSUSE Board"
Members who want to sign the petition to call for a non-confidence vote can do so by voting yes.
The petition will allow the Election Committee to measure whether 20% of the community are in favour of a re-election.
This doesn't make sense to me. So you're going to rate this by level of participation? Why not have both the Yes and No options?
The Election Rules / Constitution requires 20% of the total membership to agree not 20% of people who participate in a vote, so I guess the election officials decided that a "No" option wouldn't add any meaningful info as 20% of members need to actively say "Yes". -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B