[ZF] Announcement: 2012 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting

[Armin Stroß-Radschinski]

First I congratulate the possible new board to their willingness to  
serve for the board.

Second I want to warn to be too lazy with democratic processes.

I want to give here my general acceptance of the candidates by raising  
a +1 for all.

But...

Omitting an election due to a simple mathematical function that  
declares having exactly the amount of candidates that seems to match a  
board is not a good idea.

1. You force lazyness in the building of opinions in the foundation.
2. Its a good feeling beeing elected!
3. Its a formal process to accept the election and confirm to serve  
for the board!

These are rituals that bind the whole community of the foundation and  
the board together.
Do not degrade it to a boring or valueless process.

4. Failure of reaching the full amount of candidates is not a real  
problem.
It should result in a recognized katharsis turning it into new gaining  
spirit. Even if Zope may coming closer to Z it is still not at end of  
lifetime. Like the transformation of the DZUG it may be the starting  
point of the  metamorphosis evolving to something new like we have it  
since 2007...


my 2 Cent

Armin

Am 18.02.2012 um 12:33 schrieb Jens Vagelpohl:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Earlier this month, Tres Seaver sent out the 2012 board election  
> timetable:
>
> http://foundation.zope.org/news/2012_election_and_general_meeting
>
> As you may have noticed, we have only received four nominations during
> the nomination period. One additional nomination for Jeff Rush, our
> current treasurer, was omitted by accident. He had indicated his
> willingness to continue serving, but never sent his official notice to
> the list. With him, we are up to five nominations.
>
> The board has reached out to several community members and found one
> more candidate willing to stand, Rob Page from Zope Corporation. He
> brings extensive experience from several years of Zope Foundation
> board work from the foundation inception until early 2010.
>
> With six nominees we are one short of our usual count, but enough for
> productive board work. Since the number of nominees matches the number
> of potential board seats the outgoing board has decided to forgo the
> voting process and consider all nominees as elected by acclamation.
>
> This email serves as notice to all nominees who accepted their
> nomination that the outgoing board thanks them for their willingness
> to serve on the new board. They are, in no particular order:
>
> Jeff Rush
> Tres Seaver
> Jens Vagelpohl
> Rob Page
> Jan Smith
> Aroldo Souza-Leite
>
> The new board will be seated at the general meeting on Friday, March  
> 16,
> 2012 at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will take place on irc.freenode.net,  
> channel
> #zope-foundation. Please mark your calendars. The board will publish  
> an
> official meeting agenda shortly.
>
> jens
>
> -- 
> Jens Vagelpohl
> Secretary, Zope Foundation Board of Directors
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