Hi all,
We've reached the signing stage of getting Inkscape accepted into the Software Freedom Conservancy [1].
To refresh your memory, in the previous thread [2] we decided to go with a board to represent the project, and decided to fill the board using a combination of the Inkscape project founders and the current admins. In other words: Mental, Ted, njh, Jon Cruz, myself and Bulia. Bulia chose to give his spot to Joshua Andler.
However, for voting purposes it works best to have an odd number of people on the board, so we defined the board to be 7 members. This means we have one spot open for election.
In the Sponsorship Agreement we've specified that people in the AUTHORS file are eligible to vote. Beyond that the election process is up to us.
I'd like to propose the following:
* Announcement of the upcoming election + Inkscape website news + inkscape-announce@
* Short nomination period (2 days) + AUTHORS may nominate people + AUTHORS may be nominated + All nominations must be seconded + You can't nominate or second yourself
* Voting period, using Instant-runoff voting [3] + Lasts 7 days + Ends at Midnight Pacific time + Send votes to "vote@...1478..." alias + Votes will be private + List of voters will be public
* Votes will be tallied according to IRV and posted + Inkscape website news + inkscape-announce@
Does this sound like an okay process? Ideas on improving it?
I figure unless there are any changes to be made, we can kick off nominations tomorrow, then start the voting process on Saturday.
Bryce
1: http://www.inkscape.org/conservancy/ 2: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/17092/focus=17092 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_runoff_voting