Hi Mark,

I apologize for the slow flow of information. The online petition hasn't started yet despite the proposed date of 25 May. That is the reason why we did not post the wiki page and members did not receive any voting credential.

We will update community members as soon as we have all information ready to run the online petition. Details will follow then.

Regards,

Ish Sookun

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 20:59 +0200, Mark Stopka wrote:

Hi, do we have update in this? I can't find the wiki page, nor have I received a voting credentials...

Thanks!

Best regards / S pozdravem, BSc. Mark Stopka, BBA

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On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:55 PM 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.

=== Schedule ===

The petition schedule will be as follows:

25 May 2020
  - Publish wiki page about the petition, its schedule &

procedure - Announcement of the petition on the project mailing list & social media - Ballot is open

15 June 2020
  - Ballot is closed

16 June 2020
  - Result is announced on the mailing list

We are hereby calling the community to comment on the above procedure & schedule. The deadline for comments is 20 May 2020 23h59 CET.

Regards,

Ish Sookun

(on behalf of the Election Committee)

[1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2020-03/msg00091.html [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_rules [3] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Members