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diff --git a/vote/2016-mc/rules.wml b/vote/2016-mc/rules.wml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64368bb --- /dev/null +++ b/vote/2016-mc/rules.wml @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html> + + <head> + <title>The Document Foundation 2016 Membership Committee Election Rules</title> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + </head> + + <body> + + <h1>Rules & Timeline for The Document Foundation 2016 Membership Committee Election</h1> + + <h2>Election Rules</h2> + + <ol> + <li> + See the <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/satzung.pdf">Document Foundation statutes</a> (and the non-binding + <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/statutes.pdf">English version</a>) + for general rules. + </li> + <li> + There are 5 committee seats and 4 deputy roles that are to be filled during these elections. + </li> +<li>As per § 12 II of our statues, the Membership Committee's term lasts two years. The current committee started its duty on September 19, 2014. Therefore, the old committee remains in charge until the end of September 18, 2016, so the new committee will be in charge the day after that, which is September 19, 2016.</li> + +<li>As per § 6 III, only members of the Board of Trustees of The Document Foundation, as well as current members of any of its bodies, are eligible to be elected into the Membership Committee, and the election is overseen by the Board of Directors (§ 12 II).</li> + +<li>The active electoral right is reserved to those who have been members of the Board of Trustees before this announcement (§ 12 II).</li> + +<li>§ 6 III also states that members of the Board of Directors or their deputies may not be members of the Membership Committee and vice versa. This means that current members of the Board of Directors are eligible to be elected, but given that with the acceptance of their new role they lose their current role in the board, they would have to step down from the Board of Directors the minute before accepting to become a member of the Membership Committee.</li> + +<li>There is one more notable limitation: Per § 8 IV of the statutes, a maximum of 1/3 members of the Membership Committee is allowed to work on an employment basis for the same company, organization, entities, affiliates or subdivisions.</li> + +<li>Nomination of candidates fulfilling the above requirements, as well as self nomination is welcome. In total, at least five Membership Committee members are required, and given there are enough candidates, up to four deputies can be elected (§ 12 II).</li> + +<li>Re-election of current members of the Membership Committee is explicitly permitted (§ 12 II).</li> + +<li>Votes will be held confidential during the elections, but an anonymized archive of all submitted votes will be made publicly accessible at its conclusion.</li> + +<li>The Document Foundation Board of Directors is responsible for counting the votes.</li> + +<li>All discussion related to the elections should be held on board-discuss@documentfoundation.org. Members are invited to ask questions to one or all candidates on that list.</li> + </ol> + + <h2>Timeline</h2> + <ul> + <li>1. 2016-07-25: announcement of the elections; and start of the nomination phase</li> + <li>2. 2016-08-31, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the nomination phase (one week before the election starts, as per § 12 II)</li> + <li>3. 2016-09-08, 00:00 CET/UTC+2: official start of the elections (at least 45 days after #1, as per § 12 II)</li> + <li>4. 2016-09-14, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the elections</li> + <li>5. 2016-09-15: announcement of the preliminary results; and start of the challenging phase</li> + <li>6. 2016-09-17, 24:00 CET/UTC+2: end of the challenging phase</li> + <li>7. 2016-09-18: official announcement of the final results</li> + <li>8. 2016-09-19: new Membership Committee officially in charge</li> + </ul> + </body> +</html> |