jdd, As part of the Foundation effort, the current election rules may need some small wording updates (I noticed some grammatical errors for example). I added your proposed clarification to the Foundation portal page so that it doesn't get lost and to help us remember to resolve the current confusing wording. Alan
On 1/27/2011 at 07:32 AM, in message <4D418212.1050700@dodin.org>, jdd
wrote: Le 27/01/2011 15:15, Thomas Schmidt a écrit : All board seats usually have an election period of 2 years, and you can serve up to two subsequent periods.
oh... so it's the term "election period" that is confusing. May be because language differences.
there is an election each year, so "election period" can be seen as the time between two elections (that is one year).
As you explain it, it's the lenght of time one is elected.
may be we could rewrite a little the rules to make them more easy to understand, stating that somebody can be elected like any american president (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Co nstitution)
this amendment says:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"
we could say:
"No person shall be elected to the openSUSE board more than twice in a row, and no person who has held the board for more than one years of a term to which some other person was elected as board member shall be elected to the board more than once.
One year after the end of his last term, a former member of the board can be candidate again."
or anything similar (notice the work "term" used for the time a President is elected)
thanks for the clarification
jdd
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