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Council Elections - starting 2009 / 10

General

These are elections for three of the council seats according to the current Council Charter (v1.2).

Election process will follow the Community Council Bylaws (v1.0) as approved on 2009-05-14.

open ToDos

• define comissaries and observers
  • got applications from Mechtilde Stehmann, Drew Jensen and Stefan Taxhet

Seats to be elected

there are three seats to be elected:

• one "Code Contributor Representative" (Council Charter v1.2 added one new seat)
• one "Product Development Representatives" (successor to André Schnabel, who will leave the council)
• one "Lang Representative" (successor to Sophie Gautier, who will leave the council)

Election process

Code Contributor Representative

Responsibilities

• commissary: André Schnabel
• observer: Drew Jensen
• observer: Stefan Taxhet

Announcement

• Information

Category of Council Representative	Code Contributor
Constituency	all active code contributors - people who constantly contribute code to the project under the general rules of the project, as defined by following criteria contributor is a domain developer contributor has commit access to the OpenOffice.org code repository contributing code with the established child workspace processes contributing under the accepted term and conditions of the project (SCA, formerly known as JCA or CA). contributor constantly takes over ownership of child workspaces (took ownership of at least one CWS within the last 6 months). current list
Number of Representatives to be elected	one
Time line of elections	Announcement of elections: 2009/05/19 candidates can be nominated until: 2009/05/25 introduction and discusion on candidates until: 2009/06/01 voting starts at: 2009/06/02 voting ends at: 2009/06/17 publish results until: 2009/06/23 (latest date) (start of second vote if needed: 2009/07/01) (end of second vote if needed: 2009/07/15) (publish results of second vote if needed: 2009/07/24)
Call for candidates	written text in announcement
Name of the mailing list where candidates can be nominated	dev@openoffice.org
Details about the election process	Stefan set up the surveyserver - needs to be restricted to the "code contributor list"

• Mail
  • text ....
  • sent on put link here

Announcement

Announcement mail content: Community_Council/Items/call_for_nominations_20091013

Candidates

Name	Nomination	Confirmation	Introduction
put name here	link to nomination mail	link to confirmation mail	linkto intro mail

Voting

Voting announced via mail put link to mail here

Result

election results go here

Product Development Representatives

Responsibilities

• commissary: André Schnabel
• observer: Drew Jensen
• observer: Stefan Taxhet

Announcement

• Information

Category of Council Representative	Product Development
Constituency	Category leads, project leads and co-leads of all OpenOffice.org projects (accepted and incubator) but not from the native-lang category or l10n project current list (taken from list of accepted projects and leads list of incubator projects and leads and corrections applied)
Number of Representatives to be elected	one
Time line of elections	Announcement of elections: 2009/05/19 candidates can be nominated until: 2009/05/25 introduction and discusion on candidates until: 2009/06/01 voting starts at: 2009/06/02 voting ends at: 2009/06/17 publish results until: 2009/06/23 (latest date) (start of second vote if needed: 2009/07/01) (end of second vote if needed: 2009/07/15) (publish results of second vote if needed: 2009/07/24)
Call for candidates	written text in announcement
Name of the mailing list where candidates can be nominated	dev@openoffice.org
Details about the election process	Stefan set up the surveyserver - needs to be restricted to project leads

• Mail
  • text ....
  • sent on put link here

Candidates

Name	Nomination	Confirmation	Introduction
put name here	link to nomination mail	link to confirmation mail	linkto intro mail

Voting

Voting announced via mail put link to mail here

Result

election results go here

Lang Representative

Responsibilities

• commissary: Sophie Gautier
• observer: Mechtilde Stehmann
• observer: Stefan Taxhet

Announcement

• Information

Category of Council Representative	Lang
Constituency	Category leads, project leads and co-leads from native-lang projects, plus project lead and co-leads of l10n project. current list ( taken from list of native lang projects and leads and corrections applied)
Number of Representatives to be elected	one
Time line of elections	Announcement of elections: 2009/05/19 candidates can be nominated until: 2009/05/25 introduction and discusion on candidates until: 2009/06/01 voting starts at: 2009/06/02 voting ends at: 2009/06/17 publish results until: 2009/06/23 (latest date) (start of second vote if needed: 2009/07/01) (end of second vote if needed: 2009/07/15) (publish results of second vote if needed: 2009/07/24)
Call for candidates	written text in announcement
Name of the mailing list where candidates can be nominated	dev@native-lang.openoffice.org
Details about the election process	Stefan set up the surveyserver - needs to be restricted to project leads

• Mail
  • text ....
  • sent on put link here

Candidates

Name	Nomination	Confirmation	Introduction
put name here	link to nomination mail	link to confirmation mail	linkto intro mail

Candidates

• Presentations of the candidates: Community_Council/Items/Candidates_October_2009
  
• Answers / idea statements by the candidates: Community_Council/Items/Candidate_Answers_200910

Voting

Voting announced via mail put link to mail here

Result

The results of the November 2009 election are:

• Code Contributor Representative: Juergen Schmidt

51 Yes, 9 No (68)

• NLC Representative: Charles-H. Schulz

39 Yes, 3 No (111)

• Product Development Representative: Christoph Noack

31 Votes Christoph Noack 9 Votes Alexandro Colorado (49)

The observers, Sophie Gautier, Drew Jensen, and Mechtilde Stehmann, have all approved and confirmed the results. Our welcome and congratulations to the new Council members!