OpenCSA Member Section Steering Committee Election Now Open

["Dee Schur" <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

OASIS 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 member-services@oasis-open.org; any 
such change should be in place before the ballot is cast.

Also, any OASIS member may join the Open CSA member section at any time.
Please send an email to member-services@oasis-open.org to request
participation in this member section.

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 sc-election@oasis-open.org, 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 sc-election@oasis-open.org. 

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