[governance] IGC Co-Coordinators Elections

Mon Jul 22 19:14:36 EDT 2019

Wonderful Bruna. Agree with elections held asap and Imran's suggestion that
one is for 1 year and the other for 2 years to continue the usual rotation.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, 9:32 pm ian.peter at ianpeter.com, <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
wrote:

> I thi.nk in the circumstances the two slots is a good idea - most votes
> gets 2 years, second most 1 year. (actually both a little less, because
> following elections should be around June).
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> Ian
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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Chaitanya Dhareshwar" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> To: "Imran Ahmed Shah" <ias_pk at yahoo.com>
> Cc: bruna.mrtns at gmail.com; "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> Sent: 23/07/2019 3:54:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC Co-Coordinators Elections
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> My view is that if Bruna is willing, able and acceptable to a reasonable
> majority she can be the default choice for the interim 1 year.
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> That way we will vote on one position only (the 2 year one) which is the
> norm.
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> Best,
> C
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> On Mon 22 Jul, 2019, 22:51 Imran Ahmed Shah, <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> May I suggest two co-coordinators slots, for one and two years, so that
>> the term of both will not expire at same time.
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>> On Monday, 22 July 2019, 21:29:55 GMT+5, Bruna Martins dos Santos <
>> governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:
>>
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>> Thanks for the replies so far, everyone!
>>
>> @Chaitanya, just to clear up, one of the co-coordinators term has expired
>> for more than one year, but mine is only expired for less than two months.
>> Nevertheless, I believe we should vote for the two co-coordinators slots. I
>> am still eligible for re-election, but in case I dont run or get re-elected
>> I will most definitely help with transition and concluding our processes.
>>
>> Best,
>> Bruna
>>
>> Le lun. 22 juil. 2019 à 13:21, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <
>> chaitanyabd at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> I agree for the 1st / 2nd week of August.
>>
>> For those who've been BestBits members for a long timeframe, and due to
>> the current circumstances, I would suggest that those who'll be eligible to
>> vote as of 31st October should be permitted to cast their vote in the
>> August election.
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>> What's the plan to address the situation of 2 coordinators with a 1-year
>> term overlap? Are we voting one member (and will you continue to serve for
>> a while, to ensure smooth knowledge transfer) or are we voting 2 members?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> *Chaitanya Dhareshwar*
>>
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>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:39 PM Bruna Martins dos Santos <
>> governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:
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>> Dear IGC Members,
>>
>> I am writing to you in order to discuss the elections subject. After
>> reading - and agreeing - to so many of your comments on the list, I concur
>> to the idea that its best for us to host our elections for the
>> Co-Coordinators slots as soon as possible.
>>
>> The situation of the Co-Coordinator's term is as it follows:
>>
>> *Arsène Tungali, one of our previous Co-Coordinators, Arsene resigned and
>> his term was also expired. In my case, after checking the last elections
>> announcement I could verify that I do not have 6 more months of term as it
>> expired less than two monts ago (May, 2019). *
>>
>> I am happy that the discussion surrounding the IGC-BestBits merger have
>> also helped us get this list back to activity and the shared interest in
>> putting everything back to work - from website and mailing list archives to
>> elections.
>>
>> On that note,* I would agree on running elections right away*. And my
>> suggestion would be to w*ait until the first or second week of August*
>> for us to get some things in order to conduct this process. About this, I
>> will need some help in setting a page to check-in members, a tally and
>> ensuring that this elections is GDPR compliant.
>>
>> *If you disagree with this approach, let me know by July 31st.  *I
>> understand that some of our members considered the idea of hosting it in
>> october as it would allow the new members (most likely BestBits members) to
>> go through their 'period of grace' and be able to vote.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing back from you on this.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> --
>> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>> IGC Co-Coordinator
>>
>> Skype ID: bruna.martinsantos
>> @boomartins
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