Archive:Board election 2011
Candidates
- Pascal Bleser of Atos Worldline (Platform)
- Richard Brown of City College Brighton and Hove (Platform)
- Manu Gupta of Samsung Electronics Platform)
- Marcus Moeller (Platform)
- Chuck Payne of OnsiteRIS (Platform)
- Pavol Rusnak of SUSE (Platform)
- Will Stephenson of SUSE (Platform)
- Andrew Wafaa of Fujitsu Services (Platform)
Result
See the vote in connect.
- Pascal Bleser (172)
- Will Stephenson (104)
- Andrew Wafaa (90)
- Pavol Rusnak (81)
- Manu Gupta (60)
- Richard Brown (43)
- Marcus Moeller (42)
- Chuck Payne (16)
Timeline
- 2011-10-28 (Phase 0)
- Announcement of the openSUSE Board election for 2011.
- Start of 4 week period to apply for an openSUSE membership (in order to vote).
- Start of 4 week phase to stand for a position in the openSUSE Board.
- 2011-11-24
- Notification of intent to run, and application for an openSUSE membership close (end of phase 0).
- 2011-11-25 (Phase 1)
- Start of 1 week campaign for the candidates before the ballots open (campaign might be done until ballots close).
- 2011-12-02 (Phase 2)
- Ballots open
- 2011-12-16 [1]
- Ballots close (end of phase 2)
- 2011-12-19
- Announcement of the results
Election committee
Contact
You can contact the committee using the mail address election-officials@opensuse.org.
Detailed explanation of all phases
Phase 0: Notification of Intent to Run or nomination
Only openSUSE members have the right to run for a board seat, except if they are in the Election Committee. To stand for a position in the openSUSE board please send a mail to
In the application candidates should write a short introduction of themselves and probably a short manifesto/platform/program that gives answers to these topics:
Goal statement, Past work summary, Future plans
The election committee also needs the openSUSE username, irc nickname and a userpage in the wiki to reference the candidate. It is recommended that they blog about their candidacy as this will reach a much wider audience of voters. If their blog is not syndicated on Planet openSUSE, please advise the committee who will ensure it does get added.
Potential candidates are advised to read the Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO to get an idea of what is involved.
Also, if you want to nominate somebody else, tell the election officials and they will contact the nominated person and ask whether s/he will run for the board.
Phase 0: Application for an openSUSE membership
To apply for a membership, applicants should read through How to become a member at the membership page.
Phase 1: Campaign
During the campaign-phase there should be
- plenty of blog entries on the upcoming election by the candidates
- interviews with all candidates by the openSUSE news team
- a moderated Q&A session on IRC possibly during one of the regular Project meetings or a separate meeting
Phase 2: Election
All persons with voting right will be able to cast their votes using openSUSE Connect. Once a vote has been submitted it may not be changed afterwards. All votes are stored anonymously in the electronic system.
Seats to get elected
In this election we will have 3 seats to get elected. Bryen Yunashko's seat is being vacated due to term limits and Pavol Rusnak and Rupert Horstkotter' are completing their first terms, thus eligible to run for a second term. All board members have a limit of two consecutive terms.
External links
Articles for candidates
- Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO written by Federico Mena Quintera about the GNOME Foundation board
- What does the openSUSE Board do? Google Cache