Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS Core Team Selection Issues

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Posted by Joel Aufrecht on
Back to how we can select an electorate for the upcoming election.

We have 24 committers. This pool is both too small and not inclusive of non-coders.

If we want to count everybody who's posted in the last three months, how many people is that? We have about thirty new posters per month, 130 different people post every month, and we have around a thousand posts a month. So we could pick an electorate size, such as 100 people, and then choose the cutoff that comes closest to that number. I.e., at least one post in the last three months would probably get hundreds, two posts in the last three months might get a hundred. (recent posters)

Should we then email all of these people to tell them that there's an election? What kind of turnout could we expect?

How will we nominate candidates? Is the potential candidate pool the committers, the electorate, or anybody? Can people put their own names up? Must nominations be seconded before names show up on the ballot?

How long is the election? 48 hours?