Board Election

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The openSUSE Board

The openSUSE openSUSE Board has five seats: Four members (two non-Novell and two Novell) get elected by the community. The chairman gets appointed by Novell.

Election rules

The election of the openSUSE Board will be done using the following rules:

• Only openSUSE members may vote, each member having one ballot that has one vote per seat to be elected.
• An openSUSE election team will be created. It consists of 3 people. Neither of them can be elected as openSUSE board member.
• The openSUSE board will ask on the opensuse-project mailing list for volunteers for the openSUSE election team and select appropriate candidates. At least one member of the election team will be a Novell employee and at least one member will not be a Novell employee.
• The openSUSE board election period is two years and every year half of the board will be elected.
• openSUSE board members can serve for up to two consecutive election periods. After that they have to pause for one year.

Special rules for the first election

• Each openSUSE member can vouch for one person that should be part of the openSUSE community and this person can vote, too.
• After the announcement - and before the election - there will be a 4 week period where people can apply to be openSUSE members in order to vote.
• For the first election, the Novell and non-Novell members with the most votes will be elected for two years, the second runners for one year.

Past elections

• 1st openSUSE Board election (2008)

See also

• Proposals for the election rules and transcript of the meeting to settle the rules