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[atlarge-discuss] Foreign language versions of Announce: ICANNATLARGE.com electionsstarting



Vittorio,
When do you plan to have the Spanish/ other translations of this document
ready so that non-English speaking members can participate fully in this
election? Are there any volunteers to help translate candidates statements?
Who on the panel is preparing a list of questions to put to the candidates,
if anybody, and does the panel intend to set a word count for candidate
statements, so that everybody is on a level playing field?

Regards,
Joanna


> -----Original Message-----
> From: icannatlarge.com Chairman [mailto:info@icannatlarge.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: jo-uk@rcn.com
> Subject: Announce: ICANNATLARGE.com elections starting
>
>
> Dear icannatlarge.com member,
>
> as the mandate of the previous interim panel expires, it is now
> time to elect a new group of persons to guide the organization
> for the next 12 months. Thus we are now starting an election for
> this purpose.
>
> The nomination period is now open. If you want, you can nominate
> your candidates for the panel (chosen among the members of this
> organization) before the end of Monday, July 22 (GMT), by posting
> to the atlarge-discuss mailing list(*).
>
> You will later receive by e-mail a ballot form with the names of
> the candidates and the instructions about how to vote. After July
> 22, candidates will introduce themselves on our website; you will
> be able to debate about them using the forums on our website or
> the atlarge-discuss mailing list. Voting will happen between
> Sunday, July 28 and Saturday, August 4. Attached below you will
> find the full Charter for these elections.
>
> This election will mark an important moment for our organization,
> as representation of the public in the technical administration of
> the Internet is still under heavy discussion inside and outside
> ICANN. Thus we need the attention and support of all our members.
> Please take some time to participate in this election.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vittorio Bertola
> Current icannatlarge.com Chairman
>
>
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>
>
> ELECTIONS OF A PANEL FOR ICANNATLARGE.COM
>
> Given the fact that the deadline for the current interim panel of
> icannatlarge.com is approaching, a new election for a longer term
> panel for the icannatlarge.com effort is now starting.
>
> The purpose is to select a group of members that represent different
> views, cultures and geographical areas inside the At Large movement,
> have some technical and organizational skills, and are willing to
> devote a significant amount of their time to this effort in the next
> 12 months.
>
>
> MANDATE OF THE PANEL
>
> The panel shall be composed of eleven members of the icannatlarge.com
> effort.
>
> The mandate of the panel will be that of running the organization in
> all its aspects, including but not limited to:
>
> 1. guiding an outreach campaign so that the highest possible number of
> active users of the Internet who might want to participate in ICANN
> are informed of the effort and can register on icannatlarge.com if
> they wish, and that the membership grows to a point where it can be
> considered sufficiently representative of such users;
>
> 2. continuing the public and open discussion of Bylaws for a new At
> Large Membership organization, trying to gather consensus, consider
> all inputs, unify all efforts, and put together in the shortest
> possible amount of time one or more proposals of Bylaws to be then
> submitted and approved by a majority vote of the membership, and after
> such approval, formally incorporate the organization;
>
> 3. defending the role of the public for what related to Internet
> matters currently governed by ICANN, and guiding a discussion about
> whether and how the organization should take part to the internal
> processes ICANN will establish for public input and participation;
>
> 4. managing the icannatlarge.com website, directly and/or by
> appointing webmasters;
>
> 5. managing to hold the election of the next officers of the
> organization before the term of the panel expires.
>
> The panel shall expire and conclude its work after twelve months from
> its election.
>
>
> OPERATIONAL DETAILS AND TIMEFRAME
>
> All persons registering on icannatlarge.com before the end of Monday
> 22 July 2002 (GMT) will be entitled to vote. All voters will receive
> their ballot by e-mail at the e-mail address they used when
> registering to icannatlarge.com.
>
> Those members who want to nominate other members or second nominations
> should post a nomination/second message in the "Second Elections"
> forum on the website or to the atlarge-discuss mailing list by the end
> of Monday 22 July 2002 (GMT). To be included in the list of the
> candidates, nominated members will have to accept the nomination by
> posting a message in the same forum, or by sending an e-mail to the
> election watchdogs or to the atlarge-discuss mailing list, before
> 12:00pm (midday) of Tuesday 23 July 2002 (GMT).
>
> Candidates will be asked to provide details for a candidate page that
> will be set up on the site after finalizing the candidate list. A
> public debate about the candidates will be hold in the atlarge-discuss
> list and in the "Second Elections" forum of the icannatlarge.com
> website until July 27.
>
> Voting will occur between Sunday 28 July and Saturday 4 August 2002
> (GMT).
>
>
> VOTING SYSTEM
>
> Each voter will receive by e-mail a ballot message, which needs to be
> completed by adding a X inside the square brackets [ ] near to the
> name of the candidates that the voter wants to be endorse, and then to
> be sent back to the originating e-mail address. More detailed
> instructions will be found in the ballot message - we recommend all
> voters to read it carefully.
>
> Each voter will be allowed to endorse up to eleven names taken from
> the list of the candidates. Voters should support all candidates that
> seem best fit to the position, so that those who seem suitable to most
> members will be chosen. Overall results will not be made visible to
> voters before the booth is closed.
>
> The eleven candidates who receive the highest number of votes will be
> elected, provided that they have received at least 15 votes; if there
> are not eleven candidates above this threshold, the number of members
> of the panel will be reduced accordingly.
>
> Ties (if any) will be solved by ordering names by the number of
> candidates of the same ICANN Region that received more votes than the
> tied ones (the lowest first, so to help diversity among regions), then
> the same by country.
>
> The voting system will be kindly provided by the DNSO Secretariat - so
> the current panel wants to thank Elisabeth Porteneuve for this.
> Elections will be overviewed by the following watchdogs (whom also we
> want to thank):
>
> Bret Fausett <fausett@lextext.com>
> Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>
> Alexander Svensson <svensson@icannchannel.de>
>
>
> PANEL RULES
>
> The panel will choose, by majority vote, a Chair, with the role of
> coordinating the discussion and the meetings. If agreement on a Chair
> cannot be reached after seven days from the election, the candidate
> that received the highest number of votes will be the Chair.
>
> All decisions in the panel will be taken by explicit online vote on
> the panel mailing list, called by the Chair and lasting at least two
> days (unless a final result is reached before). Decisions will be
> taken by majority of the non-abstaining votes expressed, provided that
> at least five members of the panel expressed a vote.
>
> If any of the eleven seats in the panel becomes vacant (ie because of
> resignation, lack of suitable candidates...) it will be filled by the
> first non elected candidate from the original election, provided that
> he received at least 15 votes. If no suitable candidates are available
> from the original election, and the number of remaining members in the
> panel is lower than five, a new election will be held to fill the
> vacant seat.


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