OpenCSA Member Section Steering Committee Election Now Open

Greetings Open CSA Member Section Members,

The Open CSA Member Section Steering Committee Election is now open; 

voting closes at 5:00 PM EDT on 27-May-2009.

This year, the Member Section will elect three Steering Committee 

members to serve two-year terms. The three candidates
receiving the 

highest ranked votes will each serve two-year terms.

Each Open CSA Supporting Entity has one Qualified Elector who casts 

the single vote on behalf of his/her organization.
Unless otherwise 

designated,the organization's Primary Rep serves as
the Qualified 

Elector, see current roster,

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/opencsa-ms/members/roster.php.

The Primary Rep may defer the voting member role to another employee 

member by sending an email to ;
any 

such change should be in place before the ballot is
cast.

To insure that all Members and Observers in this Member Section 

understand the election process, the voting instructions
are as 

follows:

Cast your vote by email to , your message 

should be your ranked preference for the candidates. 
Start with 1, 

continuing until you have no further preference for
the remaining 

candidates.  

1 First Candidate name

2 Second Choice Candidate name

3 Third Choice Candidate name

Your candidates are listed alphabetically as follows:

        Anil Gurnani

        Jeff Mischkinsky

        Sanjay Patil

The candidate profiles may be found at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/opencsa-ms/documents.php,

located in the ‘2009 Steering Committee Candidates’ folder.

The voting will be by email, with the results tallied via the Single

Transferable Voting (STV) - Scottish Method.

See http://stv.sourceforge.net/
and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote.

STV considers your ranked preference for candidates in order to more

accurately reflect the wishes of the electorate.  

 

Remember, vote by email to . 

The deadline is 5:00 PM EDT on 27-May-2009.

Dee Schur and I are happy to answer any questions.

Best regards,

Mike Kaiser

Open CSA Member Section Steering Committee Vice-Chair & Secretary