[ZF] Deadlines

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>> If there are no objections, I'd like to set the following deadlines:
>>
>> - June 20 is the deadline for new member signups.  Members joining  
>> after
>>   June 20 cannot effect the initial board of directors.
>>
>> - June 21 is the deadline for director elections or appointments.
>
> All this seems awefully close. Potential members now have only 2 weeks
> to join and have to appoint/elect board members basically within that
> same period. Why is it so important to have the first board meeting on
> June 22nd? What's the rush if it's a conference call anyways?

I said that we would schedule the first board meeting on the 22nd, not
that we would have it.

I think it is very very important to have the board established
and met before EP and I want to leave a reasonably large window
to allow for the unexpected.  Also, I see no reason for delay.
We need to get off our collective posteriors and get going.

Strategic developers and consumers should be able to decide
who to appoint between now and then.  We should have no problem
finishing the committer elections between now and then.

The only open question is how associate and solution-provider members
will be handled. In theory, we will need to hold elections for them,
but so far we have no associate members, and have one solution
provider, so this is currently moot.  I expect that we'll have so few  
of these
that we will be able to handle this informally.  I'd be open to  
requiring that
they join further to give time for an election.


>> - June 22 we will schedule the first board meeting.  This will be a
>>   conference call.
>>
>> Note that committer-member voting has started.  We are still  
>> accepting
>> committer member director nominations, but we won't accept any  
>> more after
>> June 13th. June 21 will be the last day of voting.
>
> Somehow I'm not very comfortable with the voting process open while  
> new
> nominations can be made. Why can't we close the nomination process on
> June 13th and then open the voting process from June 13th till June  
> 20th?

I'm willing to do that.  I don't see that it makes much difference.

Jim

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