*** REMINDER - IMPORTANT – DATA PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

[Steve Repetti]

*** IMPORTANT – DATA PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

Pursuant to the Data Portability Charter, it is time to elect the
Data
Portability steering committee for the upcoming 2010 term.


The general process is as follows:


Interested parties must nominate themselves or be nominated (and
accept)
- Nominees should post a message to the DPP public message board
stating their intention, a brief background, and interest/experience
in Data Portability
- Must be an eligible plenary member
- Nominations must be received no later than midnight (GMT) November
23.


To be eligible to vote, participants must be a member of the plenary
- A person becomes an active member of the PLENARY by posting a
message to the dataportability-voting mailing list declaring their
intention to be a member
- Active membership in the PLENARY expires annually for all members
at midnight, GMT on the last day of the OPERATING YEAR.
- Current members may declare their intention to remain in good
standing for the following year up to 30 days before this date.
- People who have joined the PLENARY no less than one week before
the
election opens are considered eligible to vote.


Voting shall begin on December 1st (GMT) and end midnight (GMT)
December 8th
- Each member of the PLENARY shall have one vote to cast for each
open seat.
- They may cast all votes for one candidate, or one vote each for
multiple candidate.
- A member may also choose to cast only some of their votes and
abstain the remainder.


Winners to be announced upon certification of the election results
within 48 hours from election close.


Newly elected committee members will begin their 1 year term on
January 1, 2010.


Submitted by:
Steve Repetti
DataPortability Secretary

[Brett McDowell]

Are these meetings still open to non-members of the Steering Committee? I've been wanting to re-connect with DPP lately but I don't think I should run for the DPP SC for all the same reasons I stepped down last year. But it would be nice to connect and coordinate on a host of activities.

Cheers,

Brett McDowell | http://info.brettmcdowell.com | http://KantaraInitiative.org

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[Steve Repetti]

Brett,

We miss you, dude! Of course our meetings are open and we'd love for you to
join use whenever and as often as you can.

--Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett McDowell [mailto:em...@brettmcdowell.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:08 PM
To: dataportabi...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [DataPortability-Public] *** REMINDER - IMPORTANT - DATA
PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

Are these meetings still open to non-members of the Steering Committee?
I've been wanting to re-connect with DPP lately but I don't think I should
run for the DPP SC for all the same reasons I stepped down last year. But
it would be nice to connect and coordinate on a host of activities.

Cheers,

Brett McDowell | http://info.brettmcdowell.com |
http://KantaraInitiative.org

On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Steve Repetti wrote:

> *** IMPORTANT - DATA PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

[Elias Bizannes]

All meetings of the DataPortability Project are open to anyone of any
standing.

The only difference is that whilst they may talk and influence
discussions, they have no formal status on voting for motions.

You should consider being a member of the plenary however as that
gives you some voting status but being removed from any potential
conflict of interest. (As the plenary's role is more for the
accountability of Steering's governance.)

Sent by one of those damn iPhones

On 12/11/2009, at 9:07 AM, Brett McDowell <em...@brettmcdowell.com>
wrote:

[Brett McDowell]

Thanks!

I don't have an interest in driving any particular agenda for what DPP does or doesn't approve, but If casting votes on DPP resolutions is a sign of my engagement and my support of DPP's efforts, I'm happy to join as a Plenary Member. I'll look up how to do so shortly.

I look forward to re-engaging,

Brett McDowell | http://info.brettmcdowell.com | http://KantaraInitiative.org

[Brett McDowell]

Thank you for the kinds words Steve. I'm looking forward to joining the calls again.

Brett McDowell | http://info.brettmcdowell.com | http://KantaraInitiative.org