#428 Clarify FAmSCo election rules
Closed: Duplicate 6 years ago Opened 6 years ago by robyduck.

After the last elections we saw not all rules are clear and easy to understand, and sometimes lead to different interpretations. We want to clarify these, in order to be clear for all future elctions. My proposals would be:
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_election_rules

Candidates

Candidates must be member of the ambassadors group in the Fedora Accounts System. This helps to ensure FAmSCo members have some experience with the processes of Fedora but still allows relatively new contributors to sit on FAmSCo and bring fresh ideas to the table.

Candidates must self nominate at least three days before the election opens by writing their information onto the wiki (Fedora account, email and irc nick, statement of past contributions and what they hope to accomplish while a member of FAmSCo.) In addition, candidates must not be a citizen of an export-restricted country (see Legal/Export#Embargoed_Destinations for the list of export restricted countries).

In order to hold an election, a minimum number of candidates are necessary. This will be the number of open seats + 25%. If there are 4 seats available, there will need to be at least 5 candidates. If not enough candidates have signed up by the deadline, the election may be delayed waiting for more candidates to appear, in coordination with the schedule for combined Fedora elections. If there are still not enough candidates, the candidates who are present will be voted upon (or merely confirmed if there are less candidates than open seats.) If FAmSCo does not have the full number of seats filled at this point, please see Filling Vacant Seats below.

Filling Vacant Seats

If FAmSCo does not have all its seats filled due to members leaving or any other reason, the vacant seats will attempt to be filled by the following methods, starting from the first:

  • FAmSCo will ask community members they think would do a good job if they would be willing to hold the open seats. FAmSCo can, but is not obliged, consider runner-up candidates from the previous election who didn't have the opportunity to be on FAmSCo.
  • If those candidates have been exhausted or FAmSCo does not consider them eligible and the open seats are still not filled, FAmSCo will operate with less members until the next FAmSCo election.
  • If FAmSCo is not able to fulfill at least 5 seats out of 7, it will ask the Council to fulfill the vacant seats.

Not sure why this got out again, closing as duplicate of ticket #427 .

Metadata Update from @robyduck:
- Issue close_status updated to: Duplicate
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

6 years ago

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