With the announcement, this weekend, that Jim Perrin will also not be standing for the next term of the Board of Directors, I want to remind you that we are now looking for nominations for *two* board seats for the term that starts in February. Please give some thought to who you would like to have in these very important positions in the coming year(s). --Rich On 11/4/21 09:29, Rich Bowen 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. Nominations go to a Google Form, and NOT > to this list. Read on for more details. ** > > As per our governance docs - > https://www.centos.org/about/governance/board/ and > https://git.centos.org/centos/board/blob/master/f/directors/cohorts > specifically - this is notification that we’re looking for nominations > for directors to replace those departing at the end of this term. > > Every six months, half our our directors are asked if they wish to > continue in their seats. That question has been asked, and we are > awaiting the responses. Meanwhile, as you no doubt know, long-time > director KB Singh has indicated that he will not be remaining for > another term. > > To this end, we come to you, the CentOS Community, for nominations for > who should fill those seats. Please submit your nominations to this > form: https://forms.gle/G7mytxgHRpcYEC4ZA > > Please DO NOT send them to this list. There’s a few reasons for this: > > * 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. > > * We do not wish for this to devolve into a bikeshed over proposed names. > > * 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/ It may > also be wise to ask the individual if they are willing/able to serve. > > Thank you for your participation in this important moment in our > project’s history. > > Rich, for the CentOS Board of Directors