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SBAY.ORG November 2006 Elections

On this Page...

• Nominations
• Voting Schedule
• Positions and Candidates

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The election is done. See the results.

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For SBAY.ORG's election of the 2007 Officers and Board of Directors, we're assembling the list of names and will vote on them on November 5-7.

A major By-Laws amendment is under review and voting which, assuming it passes, will change the membership structure of SBAY.ORG. The organization was briefly going to have memberships based on collection of dues. But that change was moving too far away from our organization's roots. Only a handful of members paid dues before the decision was made to change to a 501(c)3 non-profit which does not use dues and where memberships have no expiration, modeled with some similarity to the Apache Software Foundation's membership structure. So the dues-paid members will convert to the first members under the new non-dues non-expiring membership structure. They will be the initial members to vote in a slate of nominated new members. As of that time, the old and new members will be the ones who can vote in the election for the Officers and Board of Directors. Membership is also required to be a corporate officer, to hold a seat on the Board of Directors or to be an officer of any SIG.

Nominations

Nominations for new members or for officer and director candidates should be sent to nom2007@sbay.org .

If you're volunteering to run for a position in the election, please make sure to get a nomination for membership if you aren't already officially a member of sbay.org. Just ask around - the Board of Directors, any SIG or any three members can nominate new members. We expect a fairly large initial group of new members for the election.

Note that nominations for membership should indicate who made the nomination. Nominations of candidates can only be from the candidate, or with their approval.

Voting Schedule

The voting schedule for the by-laws amendment, new-member nominations and Board of Directors election are shown below. All times are Pacific local time - daylight or standard time are indicated.

Schedule	Start time	End time	Notes
By-Laws amendment: mandatory 15-day discussion/review period	Friday, October 13, 00:00 PDT	Saturday, October 28, 00:00 PDT
By-Laws amendment: 72-hour voting period	Saturday, October 28, 00:59 PDT	Monday, October 30, 23:59 PST	end of daylight time on Oct 29 at 2AM
Nominations of initial sbay.org members for new By-Laws	Friday, October 13, 00:00 PDT	Thursday, November 2, 23:59 PST	concurrent with By-Laws discussion/review/voting period, plus a few days
Vote in sbay.org members under new By-Laws	Monday, November 6, 00:00 PST	Wednesday, November 8, 23:59 PST	delayed from Nov 1 to allow new-member nominations to conclude
sbay.org 2007 Officers and Board of Directors election	Saturday, November 11, 02:00 PST	Tuesday, November 14, 02:00 PST	delayed from Nov 3-5 to follow new-member voting

See the major By-Laws amendment for more information about the review and voting on the By-Laws.

Positions and Candidates

Organization		Position	Term	Nominations (listed alphabetically)
sbay.org South Bay Community Network		President	1 year (2007)	Heather Stern
		Vice President	1 year (2007)	open
		Directors (3 seats up for election)	2 year (2007-2008)	Craig Anderson Sean Lynch
			2 year (2007-2008)
			1 year (2007)
SIGs	Stratofox Stratofox Aerospace Tracking Team	Stratofox holds an annual internal election for team coordinator
	Linux Picnic Linux anniversary picnic	The Linux Picnic Coordinator is an ongoing volunteer position
	Silicon Valley Wireless Users and Experimenters (SVWUX) formerly SBAY Wireless	SVWUX holds an annual internal election for Coordinator

Note about membership in sbay.org and SIGs:

• All candidates in the sbay.org election must be members of sbay.org.
• The new membership rules will go into effect November 1, when voting commences on new member nominations. In order to become a member of sbay.org in time to vote or run for office in the election, you need to be nominated for membership by November 2. Members may be nominated by any one of these:
  • any three members,
  • any active SIG, or
  • the Board of Directors.
  The current members will vote in the new members on November 3.
• Voting in the sbay.org election requires membership in sbay.org.
• Membership by November 3 is required to participate in the November 5-7 election. However, if you miss it, don't worry. Membership nominations will be a recurring process thereafter.