[VOTE] Staggered terms for Board of Directors

[Dave Methvin]

This is a vote to establish the following terms, starting November 1, for the current jQuery Foundation Board of Directors:

• 1 year: Corey Frang, John Resig, Yehuda Katz, Todd Parker

• 2 years: Jörn Zaefferer, Leah Silber, Dan Heberden, Dave Methvin

• 3 years: Adam Sontag, Rick Waldron, Ralph Whitbeck, Scott González

Background: Section 5 of the jQuery Foundation bylaws state:

Directors shall serve for term of no more than three years or until their successors have duly taken office and shall not serve more than three terms. After completion of three consecutive terms, a Director will be given emeritus status. After one year of emeritus status, a Director may be re-nominated to the Board. Length of terms and appointment dates may be staggered by decision of the Board to avoid all terms expiring at the same time.

This vote proposes a staggered schedule to ensure that in any year roughly one-third of the Directors have expiring terms. The (possibly abbreviated) initial terms proposed in this motion will count as the first of the maximum three consecutive terms for each Director.

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Voting Rules: 

For a vote to occur there needs to be a motion made for a vote (by a board member) and must be seconded by two other board members. Alternatively, an expedited vote can be called by request if the motion is seconded by one-third of the board. The vote will be posted to the public jQuery board mailing list. Ideally the project leader will publish the vote but in his absence it can be posted by another team member. If this message is being read on a vote on the public jQuery board mailing list then a motion has already been made and seconded by two board members. 

For a vote to be determined, a majority of all eligible board members able to vote must vote in the affirmative. A vote is placed by responding to this mailing list message with a '+1' (affirmative) or '-1' (negative) indicator. 48 hours after the vote has been called the vote will be closed. If at the close of the vote a majority of eligible board members have not voted in the affirmative then the vote fails. 

Voting will be used primarily for adding and removing voting board members, setting budgets and spending money, and making changes to the charter.

[Corey Frang]

+1

[Jörn Zaefferer]

+1

[Scott González]

+1

[Dave Methvin]

+1

[Todd Parker]

+1

[adam j. sontag]

+1

[Yehuda Katz]

+1

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:28 AM, adam j. sontag <ajp...@gmail.com> wrote:

+1

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Yehuda Katz
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[Dan Heberden]

+1

[Leah Silber]

+1

Leah Silber
917.714.4953

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Dan Heberden <danhe...@gmail.com> wrote:

+1

[Rick Waldron]

+1

[Ralph Whitbeck]

+1

Sent from my iPhone

[Dave Methvin]

Voting is closed. With 11 of 12 votes in the affirmative, this vote passes.