On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 01:48:23PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
On 15337 March 1977, Sam Hartman wrote:
In fairness, I'd recommend that the nominations period be extended for
some explicit time. I think that we want to have a known window for new
nominations rather than say starting the campaigning as soon as someone
nominates themselves.
§5.2.4 to the rescue. (Something I also missed earlier).
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For three weeks after that no more candidates may be nominated;
candidates should use this time for campaigning and discussion. If there
are no candidates at the end of the nomination period then the
nomination period is extended for an additional week, repeatedly if
necessary.
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So basically we are now having one more nomination period week.
It also means that the current DPL's term will expire before we
have a new DPL. I think this will apply in that case:
6. Technical committee
6.1. Powers
[...]
8. The Chair can stand in for the Leader, together with the Secretary
As detailed in §7.1(2), the Chair of the Technical Committee and
the Project Secretary may together stand in for the Leader if there
is no Leader.
[...]
7. The Project Secretary
7.1. Powers
The Secretary:
[...]
2. Can stand in for the Leader, together with the Chair of the
Technical Committee.
If there is no Project Leader then the Chair of the Technical
Committee and the Project Secretary may by joint agreement make
decisions if they consider it imperative to do so.
Kurt