On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 03:42:51AM +0200, Martin Owens wrote:

Hello Everyone,

While at the Paris hackfest, Tav and mayself had a brief discussion about the board and if it's time to open up one of our spots.

Jon Cruz has missed more votes and meetings than our charter allows.

You're right, this appears unfortunately to be true. Four votes were held so far this year, and all four lacked votes from Jon:

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In total of 35 votes Jon has cast a vote 19 times.

And while I'd love to see Jon continue in the inkscape project, for the board, we need to have enough people to make quorum on votes.

With that I'd like to propose we schedule a vote for new board members. We can take our time I think, and we have some excellent contributors who'd make good candidates.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks for following up on this action item from last meeting.

Martin, the next step is to review the election procedure (it's in the board-docs/resolutions directory -- probably should be placed somewhere more visible/official). There is a template for a schedule, please use this to propose our election schedule.

Would you also like to write a kickoff announcement (there's a generic message template in the election_procedure.txt file)?

An Election Proctor will also need to be elected by the board. I'll accept nominations at this time, and arrange a vote within about week. The proctor doesn't have to be a board member, although I think we've generally had a board member do it in the past. I seem to recall last time we had the proctor establish a small election committee, although we had several board seats open that time and the voting software was new, so maybe this time one person would be enough especially if they've done it in the past. (Do I recall correctly that Ted was the proctor last time?)

Bryce