[AFS3-std] 2014 Elections Process and Call for Nominations

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

This message serves as a call for nominations for candidates to
serve as chairs of the afs3-standardization group.  Please read on
for details on how the process will work and how to register your
nomination(s).

Since this group has yet to formally adopt a permanent charter, I am
assuming that we are still operating under the process described in
draft-wilkinson-afs3-standardisation-00.txt.  The elections process is
described in section 2.2.2 of that document.

The current chairs are Michael Meffie and myself; Mike's term ends
this year, and mine a year from now.  The normal process calls for the
existing chairs, including the outgoing chair, to act as vote-takers.
However, candidates cannot act as vote-takers, and I believe Mike has
agreed to run for re-election.  Under our current process, this would
leave me as the only vote-taker.

*** CONSENSUS CALL ***
In order to avoid single points of failure in the process, I would like
to ask the group to authorize me to appoint Chaskiel Grundman as a
backup vote-taker.  In that role, he would receive copies of all votes,
but would report results only if no other vote-taker is available, or
at his discretion, if he believes there is a discrepancy.  

This message serves as a consensus call on this question, to expire
on August 25, at the same time nominations close.

Regardless of the outcome of this question, if Mike is not nominated
or chooses not to run, he will serve as a vote-taker.
**********************


Consistent with the constraints described in section 2.2.2, this
election will proceed along the following timeline:

Jul  1  Eligibility Cutoff (see below)
Aug  6  Call for nominations
Aug 25  Nominations close - 23:59 UTC
Sep  1  Call for votes
Sep 15  Voting closes     - 23:59 UTC
Sep 22  Results announced
Oct  1  New chair takes office

Eligibility to vote is determined by those who are subscribed to, or
have posted to, the standardisation group during the time period from
the 1st of June to the 1st July of the appropriate year.  There were
no new subscriptions and no one unsubscribed during June or since.
There were also no posts during June.  Therefore, the list of eligible
voters is the same as the current list of subscribers, which has been
reproduced below.  Note that while some voters may be listed with
multiple email addresses, the rule is that each person gets one vote,
no matter how many addresses are subscribed.  Additionally, only people
may vote; archive and list exploder addresses do not get a vote.

Any subscriber to this list may view the current list of subscribers
by entering their email address and list password at the bottom of
<http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization>

Anyone at all may view the list of posts made during June by visiting
<http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/afs3-standardization/2014-June/>


Nominations and seconds should be sent to the afs3-standardization
mailing
list and also directly to Michael, Chaskiel, and myself.  Any consenting
individual may be nominated, but shall be both proposed and seconded by
eligible voters.  Self-nomination is not permitted.  To reiterate,
please
send nominations and seconds to the following addresses:

  afs3-standardization@lists.openafs.org
  jhutz@cmu.edu
  mmeffie@sinenomine.net
  cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu

As shown in the above timeline, nominations are open for a period of 19
days from today, ending at 23:59 UTC on August 25, 2014.  Nominations
received after that time will not be considered.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Co-chair, AFS3 Standardization Group

The following is a list of eligible voters for this year's election:

8g9jgun8q7uel95ms7f89h1ct3gkg8hh@cmx.ietfng.org
adeason2@uiuc.edu
adeason@sinenomine.net
afs3-standardization@umich.edu
afs@achernya.com
aleida@aleidax.com
alfw@slac.stanford.edu
allbery.b@gmail.com
antoine@verheijen.ca
antoine.verheijen@ualberta.ca
archive@mail-archive.com
asanka@mit.edu
asedeno@mit.edu
ballbery@sinenomine.net
bbense@gmail.com
botsch@cnf.cornell.edu
brabuhr@gmail.com
breandan@dezendorf.com
bryan@harold.org
caitlin.bertels@zeusmail.org
carmelina.pelkey@zeusmail.org
cclausen@acm.org
cedric.blancher@gmail.com
cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu
cgrundman@gmail.com
chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
christof.hanke@rzg.mpg.de
develop4alien@yandex.ru
dhk@ccre.com
drh@umich.edu
eagle@eyrie.org
ed-openafs@s5h.net
elizabeth@linuxbox.com
fawadlateef@gmail.com
felix.frank@alumni.tu-berlin.de
felix.frank@desy.de
gabrielgiurgeanu@mobile.ucs.ro
gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com
gcfas-afs3-standardization@m.gmane.org
gergely.madarasz@morganstanley.com
glasgall@mit.edu
haba@kth.se
harry.worley@jpl.nasa.gov
horney@speech.kth.se
horst@birthelmer.de
hozer@hozed.org
iqbal@aroussi.ca
iszczesniak@gmail.com
izaac@setec.org
jackhill@jackhill.us
jakllsch@kollasch.net
jaltman@secure-endpoints.com
jaltman@your-file-system.com
jason@rampaginggeek.com
jens.wegener@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
jhutz@cmu.edu
john@iastate.edu
joshua.johnson@ftlsystems.com
kaduk@mit.edu
kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
kenh@pobox.com
kevinboulain@gmail.com
kllin@it.su.se
knape@njit.edu
kolya@mit.edu
kula@tproa.net
lionelcons1972@gmail.com
ljwljw315@sohu.com
lorenl@north-winds.org
mancini@math.unifi.it
marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
matt@linuxbox.com
matt@slackers.net
mdbaker@rose-hulman.edu
mdw@umich.edu
megacz@cs.berkeley.edu
michaelrf.hunter+openafs.org@gmail.com
milind@nd.edu
mmeffie@sinenomine.net
mvitale@sinenomine.net
nathaniel.hatley@gmail.com
olle@misc.netbsd.se
openafs@alteholz.de
ota@us.ibm.com
paul.smeddle@morganstanley.com
pod@herald.ox.ac.uk
pras.reg@gmail.com
reuter@rzg.mpg.de
rmitz@cmu.edu
shadow@dementia.org
shadow@gmail.com
shouhuaw@gmail.com
simon@sxw.org.uk
stentz@us.ibm.com
stephan.wiesand@desy.de
steven.jenkins@gmail.com
sturdiva@umd.edu
summatusmentis@gmail.com
tdamato@odu.edu
tkeiser@gmail.com
tkeiser@sinenomine.net
vandoribeiro@gmail.com
vishal.cse.iitk@gmail.com
wendlin1974@gmail.com
whm@stanford.edu
w.phillip.moore@gmail.com
wshi@fdrinnovation.com
zelma.vandemore@zeusmail.org