On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:44 PM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote: > > ** Please do read the message before responding with your nominations. > We have a process, and if you don’t follow the process, it makes > everything harder for everyone. ** > > ** The process is to email centos-board-private at centos.org. Read on for > more details. ** > > At the April Board of Directors meeting, we discussed the annual process > of re-appointing the Board of Directors, as defined in our Governance > documents. At that time, two directors indicated that they wished to > step down, to focus on other things in their life and open the seats to > new contributors. > > (Historical note: The last time a director resigned, the Board simply > appointed replacements with no public process. We believe that greater > transparency is needed in this new chapter of our existence as a > project, and are committed to making that happen.) > > With two resignations, we have 8 Board seats filled. Our governance > definition as it currently stands indicates 8 to 11 seats[1], so we’re > still covered. However, we have decided to continue to seat 10 directors > as part of the new Board. > > To this end, we come to you, the CentOS Community, for nominations for > who should fill those seats. We ask that you send nominations to > centos-board-private at centos.org and NOT to this list. There are several > reasons for this: > > 1) Our governance indicates that the Board selects the next Board. We do > not have any defined notion of project “membership” or a voting class of > any kind, other than the Board itself. We do not wish to give any false > impression that a public vote will be held on this list. > > 2) We do not wish for this to devolve into a bikeshed over proposed names. > > 3) We do not wish for individuals named to assume that they have any > particular advantage over other nominees, nor do we wish for anyone to > be shamed, embarrassed, or disappointed, if they are named and then not > seated on the Board. > > The Board will collect those nominations, consider them at an upcoming > meeting, and select the next Board at that time. > > We ask, if you wish to nominate someone, to consider the list of > director requirements/recommendations listed at > https://www.centos.org/about/governance/director-requirements/ Are self-nominations allowed? I would assume so. For nominations that are not self-nominations, will the Board reach out to the potential candidate to confirm they wish to remain in consideration for a Board seat before considering them in the meeting? josh > > Thank you for your participation in this important moment in our > project’s history. > > Rich, for the CentOS Board of Directors > > [1] https://www.centos.org/about/governance/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel