Forum OpenACS Q&A: Fall 2005 OCT Elections: Procedure and Call for Nominations

(the title of this post was edited to say Fall 2005)

The OCT (OpenACS Core Team) terms of Don Baccus, Dave Bauer, Jeff Davis, Andrew Grumet, and Jade Rubick are expiring. This means that 5 seats on OCT are up for election.
There are 9 total seats, roughly half of which are up for election every six months.
For more detail please see the OpenACS governance page
and also TIP #22.
Those elected will serve one year terms.

<h3>Voters and Nominations</h3>

The 4 OCT members elected May 27, 2005,
CVS committers and
anyone who has posted at least twice to the forums in 90 days to 04 Oct may vote. With the exception of the 4 OCT members whose terms are not expiring, these same persons are eligible be candidates for OCT, and may nominate others for this election.

Current OCT members (Don, Dave, Jeff, Andrew, Jade) are automatically nominated. (Please post here if you decline the nomination.) For others, two nominations are required to be on the ballot. Nomination takes place by posting on this thread.

<h3>Timetable</h3>

(All times are Midnight UTC on the day mentioned.)

Now: Nominations open.

Tuesday 18 Oct 2005: Nominations close. Preliminary ballot is published.

<strike>Sun</strike>Mon 24 Oct 2005: Ballot is frozen at 23:00 UTC (those who have declined nomination are deleted). Voting begins at Midnight UTC.

Sun Nov 7 2005: Voting ends.

<h3>Procedure</h3>

Voting will take place on the openacs.org site, at a URL to be announced in this thread and in its own thread on the OpenACS Q&A forum.
Please request notification on this thread using the link at the top of the page.

Let the nominations begin!

..and nominate:

Victor Manuel Guerra Moran

and

Eduardo Pérez

It wouldn't make sense to put me on the OCT unless and until I find time to actually contribute substantial code and effort to OpenACS. I'd like that, but I don't honestly expect it to happen anytime soon.