Proposals

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 08:38 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> Also, the same goes for any voting procedure. Written proposals have a
> much better chance of being acted on. This one is easier since the
> document is in English (at least from my point of view :)

I propose that the Online Voting Policy be amended as follows.

The section entitled "Voting Administrators" shall be replaced with the
text:

        The board of the OpenEmbedded e.V. assigns one or more voting
        administrators who are responsible for the technical operation
        of the vote.  This includes sending out the ballots, receiving
        the votes, calculating and publishing the results.  The voting
        administrators need not be members of the e.V.
        
        For votes which elect a group of persons ("3.2" below) no
        candidate shall serve as an administrator for a vote in which
        he/she is standing.
        
        Other than publishing the official results, as described under
        "Publication of voting results" below, the voting administrators
        shall treat all information relating to the vote as confidential
        and shall not store or process this data except as necessary to
        perform their duties.
        
The section entitled "Electing groups of persons" shall be replaced with
the text:

        For elections of groups of people there is an additional
        candidacy period before the voting proposal is sent.  The
        appointed voting administrator(s) shall send a call for
        candidates to the membership mailing list which starts the
        candidacy period.
        
        The candidacy period lasts two weeks. All members who declare
        their candidacy in a statement sent to the membership list
        become candidates for the election.

        If, at the conclusion of the candidacy period, the number of
        declared candidates does not exceed the number of places to be
        filled, no voting takes place and all the declared candidates
        are deemed to be accepted.  Otherwise, the voting
        administrator(s) send the final list of declared candidates in
        the form of a voting proposal and, following the two-week
        discussion period, the candidates are voted on as options
        according to section 3.4.
        
The section entitled "Anonymity" shall be deleted.

The section entitled "Publication of voting results" shall be replaced
with the text:

        The result of each vote shall be published, no later than 7 days
        after the end of the voting period, on the OpenEmbedded e.V.
        website and by email to the membership list.  The published
        results shall include a list of all members who participated in
        the vote and the total number of votes cast for each option
        (but, for the avoidance of doubt, the option for which each
        individual member voted shall remain confidential).
        
p.