OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Philip Balister]

As most of you know, there is an OpenEmbedded eV to provide an umbrella 
organization for handling various aspects of managing the project. There 
is a description here: http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Organization.

One of the things we would like to do is vote in new members to the eV 
(for the .us guys, think 501c3). If you are interested in becoming a 
member, read the Organization web page and send me an email indicating 
your desire to become a member. Please include a short paragraph 
explaining who you are and how you are involved with OpenEmbedded.

After one week, I'll submit the list of names as a voting proposal to 
the current eV members. Or statutes provide for a one week discussion 
period, followed by a one week voting period for new member votes.

People ask me why they should join the eV. Besides being a good way to 
show your support for the OpenEmbedded project, the Technical Steering 
Committee is elected by the eV members.

To remain an eV member, you must attend the annual General Assembly 
regularly. (if you miss two consecutive meetings you become an 
extraordinary member with no voting rights). However, submitting a proxy 
counts as attending the General Assembly. The current plan is to 
schedule the GA at ELCE this fall.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Philip

Re: OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/5/3 Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>

[...]

>
> People ask me why they should join the eV. Besides being a good way to show
> your support for the OpenEmbedded project, the Technical Steering Committee
> is elected by the eV members.
>
> Sorry but the current TSC is NOT elected by the eV members.

Actually the board even fails to meet its own "rules" stipulated when they
installed this interim TSC.

From Philip's email from feb 10:

This interim TSC will operate for 2 months when we shall start elections
at two month intervals for the 5 positions on the TSC. The new elected
TSC members will operate under the charter detailed on the wiki here
http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter.

We're now almost 3 months later and no election has been held!

Frans

Re: OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Mark Hatle]

Speaking as a member of the TSC, our understanding is an election would be
called for the first position at the beginning of May.  (More or less this week.)

The TSC members up for election was decided by the TSC to be in the order of the
original board announcement, with the final two members going up for election at
the same time.

--Mark

On 5/3/11 3:05 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/5/3 Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> People ask me why they should join the eV. Besides being a good way to show
>> your support for the OpenEmbedded project, the Technical Steering Committee
>> is elected by the eV members.
>>
>> Sorry but the current TSC is NOT elected by the eV members.
> 
> Actually the board even fails to meet its own "rules" stipulated when they
> installed this interim TSC.
> 
> From Philip's email from feb 10:
> 
> This interim TSC will operate for 2 months when we shall start elections
> at two month intervals for the 5 positions on the TSC. The new elected
> TSC members will operate under the charter detailed on the wiki here
> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter.
> 
> We're now almost 3 months later and no election has been held!
> 
> Frans
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Re: OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 22:05 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/5/3 Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
> 
> [...]
>         
>         People ask me why they should join the eV. Besides being a
>         good way to show your support for the OpenEmbedded project,
>         the Technical Steering Committee is elected by the eV members.
>         
> Sorry but the current TSC is NOT elected by the eV members. 

The current situation was making the best of a bad set of circumstances,
the plan is to hold elections and nothing has changed in that regard.

> Actually the board even fails to meet its own "rules" stipulated when
> they installed this interim TSC.
> 
> From Philip's email from feb 10:
> This interim TSC will operate for 2 months when we shall start elections
> at two month intervals for the 5 positions on the TSC. The new elected
> TSC members will operate under the charter detailed on the wiki here
> 
> http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter.
> We're now almost 3 months later and no election has been held!

This was discussed at the last TSC meeting and we reviewed the TSC
meeting minutes where it was recorded that:

"""
Election wise, we'll elect the seats in the order from the board
announcement email until we have 5 elected members. We will rely on the
board to call the first election in May. 
"""

which the TSC has reminded the board about last week.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/5/3 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

> On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 22:05 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> > 2011/5/3 Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >         People ask me why they should join the eV. Besides being a
> >         good way to show your support for the OpenEmbedded project,
> >         the Technical Steering Committee is elected by the eV members.
> >
> > Sorry but the current TSC is NOT elected by the eV members.
>
> The current situation was making the best of a bad set of circumstances,
> the plan is to hold elections and nothing has changed in that regard.
>
> > Actually the board even fails to meet its own "rules" stipulated when
> > they installed this interim TSC.
> >
> > From Philip's email from feb 10:
> > This interim TSC will operate for 2 months when we shall start elections
> > at two month intervals for the 5 positions on the TSC. The new elected
> > TSC members will operate under the charter detailed on the wiki here
> >
> > http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/TSCCharter.
> > We're now almost 3 months later and no election has been held!
>
> This was discussed at the last TSC meeting and we reviewed the TSC
> meeting minutes where it was recorded that:
>
> """
> Election wise, we'll elect the seats in the order from the board
> announcement email until we have 5 elected members. We will rely on the
> board to call the first election in May.
> """
>
> which the TSC has reminded the board about last week.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> I don't think it is up to the TSC to decide on the re-election timeframe.
As it stands the TSC got a 2 month mandate. See the quote above (from
Philip's email from feb 10).
That is all I wanted to indicate.

Frans

Re: OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 23:15 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/5/3 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

>         This was discussed at the last TSC meeting and we reviewed the
>         TSC
>         meeting minutes where it was recorded that:
>         
>         """
>         Election wise, we'll elect the seats in the order from the
>         board
>         announcement email until we have 5 elected members. We will
>         rely on the
>         board to call the first election in May.
>         """
>         
>         which the TSC has reminded the board about last week.

>         
> I don't think it is up to the TSC to decide on the re-election
> timeframe. As it stands the TSC got a 2 month mandate. See the quote
> above (from Philip's email from feb 10).
> That is all I wanted to indicate.

The TSC was asked by the board to figure out the details of the election
which we did in the first meeting as requested and provided our feedback
back to the board. The board naturally has the ultimate say in this.

Cheers,

Richard

Re: [yocto] OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Yu Ke]

on 2011-5-4 3:44, Philip Balister wrote:
> e of the things we would like to do is vote in new members to the eV
> (for the .us guys, think 501c3). If you are interested in becoming a
> member, read the Organization web page and send me an email indicating
> your desire to become a member. Please include a short paragraph
> explaining who you are and how you are involved with OpenEmbedded.

Hi Philip,

I have the interests to become the member of eV. Below is my short bio.

Biography: Yu Ke is a senior software engineer in Intel Open Source 
Technology Center. Currently he is working in Yocto Project as tech 
leader of Yocto PRC team. Ke begin to play with OpenEmbedded when join 
Yocto project since its creation. He is involved in various areas in the 
project, including core package maintenance and build system development.

Regards
Yu Ke

Re: [yocto] OpenEmbedded eV membership drive

[Yu, Ke]

Sorry, I meant to send to Philips only, not want to CC list to bother wider people. 

Regards
Ke

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> Yu Ke
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:17 PM
> To: Philip Balister
> Cc: openembedded-core
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [yocto] OpenEmbedded eV membership drive
> 
> on 2011-5-4 3:44, Philip Balister wrote:
> > e of the things we would like to do is vote in new members to the eV
> > (for the .us guys, think 501c3). If you are interested in becoming a
> > member, read the Organization web page and send me an email indicating
> > your desire to become a member. Please include a short paragraph
> > explaining who you are and how you are involved with OpenEmbedded.
> 
> Hi Philip,
> 
> I have the interests to become the member of eV. Below is my short bio.
> 
> Biography: Yu Ke is a senior software engineer in Intel Open Source Technology
> Center. Currently he is working in Yocto Project as tech leader of Yocto PRC
> team. Ke begin to play with OpenEmbedded when join Yocto project since its
> creation. He is involved in various areas in the project, including core package
> maintenance and build system development.
> 
> Regards
> Yu Ke
> 
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