[steering-discuss] appointing Thorsten as election officer for MC

Hello,

just to have it official: I'd hereby like to nominate Thorsten Behrens as election officer for the upcoming membership committee elections.

As Thorsten is elected BoD member, he is not running for an MC seat, and thus should have no conflict of interest in acting as election officer.

+1 for Thorsten from my side

Florian

+1 from my side... do we only need one?

best,
Charles.

Hi,

+1 from my side... do we only need one?

IMHO one is enough, as we had it for the BoD elections.

Florian

Note that, for the BoD elections, Thorsten operated the election software under my supervision and with the MC observing (I actually asked multiple members of the MC to validate the results). I recommend that the BoD continue this approach, with all Election actions conducted in sight of the full BoD.

S.

I agree: the BoD election should be supervised by the MC and
vice-versa. The 'Election Officer' is just the point man, the
'executive officer'. He can be any member designated by the body
having oversight of the election.

Norbert

PS: although I have no direct standing, +1 for Thorsten as Election
officer for this MC election.
PPS: To complement my previous message regarding a delay between MC
and BoD election:
Let's say the foundation is effective January 1st 2012. the new Bod
would be in place until January 1st 2013 right ?
We can designate the current MC as the 'initial MC' until June 1st,
and have the soon to be elected MC enter in function June 1st 2012 to
June 1st 2013

If the view is that the current BoD mandate expire End of October
2012, then the same reasoning apply except that the new MC become
'active' April 1st.

+1 from my side.

Hello,

I agree: the BoD election should be supervised by the MC and
vice-versa. The 'Election Officer' is just the point man, the
'executive officer'. He can be any member designated by the body
having oversight of the election.

indeed. The BoD should be involved in verifying those results, I agree. The BoD can coordinate with Thorsten as election officer on that topic then.

PPS: To complement my previous message regarding a delay between MC
and BoD election:
Let's say the foundation is effective January 1st 2012. the new Bod
would be in place until January 1st 2013 right ?

Exactly. The term should run as soon as the foundation is legally established, as previously agreed in an SC call. The same is true for the MC, IMHO.

We can designate the current MC as the 'initial MC' until June 1st,
and have the soon to be elected MC enter in function June 1st 2012 to
June 1st 2013

That might indeed make sense, to not overlap both elections. In that case, we can nominate the current MC (in case they don't object) in the filing application, and by the middle of next year, they step back and we have a formal vote.

Florian

just to have it official: I'd hereby like to nominate Thorsten Behrens as
election officer for the upcoming membership committee elections.

+1

+1.