On 5/16/20 7:42 AM, Ariez J Vachha wrote:
Fellow openSUSE members,
For those who are struggling with the process. What is happening in simple bullet points is:
Our Election rules state:
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.
**So this is simply a petition to see if 20% of the members require a new board.**
* If you want to sign the petition - cast a vote. * If you don't want to sign the petition for whatever reason - don't vote * If 20% or more of the members sign the petition (by casting a vote) then, an election for the complete Board seats will be triggered. * If less than 20% of the members sign the petition, then an election only for the vacant seats will be triggered.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards, Ariez Vachha ajv@opensuse.org
Doing it that way, Let me Clarify what kind of an undemocratic precedence you will be setting, scenario as follows: 1. At next election, I run for Board Member 2. I miss out on getting a seat by 1 person, like Vincenz did 3. Going from this precedence, I start a petition for recall 4. Then I am able to find 20% of the membership who voted for people who did not make it in, get them to back the petition. 5. New election is triggered. In other words, now 20% of the Community has overturned the Board that was just elected by the Majority of the voters. Or, another scenario, for some reason somebody just does not like someone on the Board, they can initiate the same minority toss-out of the Majority choice. None of this is fair to the Community, the Voters, nor the Board Members themselves. I cannot agree with that precedence. And this, from Richard, who I most often tend to agree with:
I agree that Gerald’s interpretation of the rules is more consistent with my expectations as someone who had a hand in those rules over the years.
Then, perhaps if you had done a better job of defining this rule, the openSUSE Community, the Board, and the Elections Officials would not find themselves in this current conundrum. -- -Gerry Makaro openSUSE Member aka Fraser_Bell on the Forums, OBS, IRC, and mail at openSUSE.org Fraser-Bell on Github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org