FW: [legalxml-ms] LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee Nominations

This recent email from Dee is the notification I mentioned would be forthcoming at our Dec 10 meeting. Be sure to submit nominations per instructions in Dee's message before the January 5 deadline.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee Schur [mailto:dee.schur@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:31 PM
To: legalxml-ms@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [legalxml-ms] LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee Nominations Now Open

OASIS members:

Two 'at-large' seats serving a 'one-year term' on the OASIS LegalXML Member

Section (MS) Steering Committee [1] is up for election. All LegalXML MS

participants are invited to nominate qualified candidates and/or serve on

the Steering Committee. If you aren't currently active in the LegalXML

Member Section, now is a great time to join.

The OASIS LegalXML Member Section produces technical specifications that

support implementation of XML technology in the legal system for use by all

who have a stake in electronic legal documents, records, and information

exchanges. The LegalXML Member Section engages legal document creators,

vendors, academics, and users in a legal community in defining requirements,

drafting and reviewing the specifications.

The nomination and election procedures for the Steering Committee is defined

by the OASIS Member Section Policy [2] and the LegalXML

Member Section Rules of Procedure [3].

Any LegalXML MS participant [4] may nominate or be nominated as a candidate

for the Steering Committee. Any OASIS member may join the LegalXML MS [5].

The process is simple but it must be completed during the nomination period

to submit a nomination.

The "At Large" LegalXML Member Section Steering Committee members will be

nominated and elected by Member Section Qualified Electors. The LegalXML

Member Section Qualified Electors are those Eligible Persons who are either

an Individual Member Section Supporting Entity or an employee or designee of

an organizational Member Section Supporting Entity, who subscribes to the

Member Section email list. An organizational Member Section Supporting

Entity may have more than one Qualified Elector. Please contact

(member-services@oasis-open.org) if you have any questions regarding your

affiliation with the LegalXML MS.

NOMINATION & ELECTION SCHEDULE

Nominations will be held 18-December-2008 through 5-January-2009.

The election will be held 7-January-2009 through 21-January-2009.

NOMINATION PROCESS

***Any LegalXML MS participant may nominate a candidate via email to:

nominations@oasis-open.org.

Prior to being confirmed as a candidate, each nominee must:

1. Accept the nomination;

2. Confirm his/her ability to meet the time commitments of the position

(participation in a two-hour teleconference each month, promote the work of

the Member Section).

3. **Provide background information and a position statement describing

his/her qualifications and motivations for serving on the Steering

Committee; and

4. Be a participant in the LegalXML Member Section.

ELECTION PROCESS

The two new Steering Committee members will be selected by the LegalXML MS

Qualified Electors, using the Single Transferable Voting (STV) process -

Scottish Method [6]. STV considers each voter's ranked preference for

candidates, in order to more accurately reflect the wishes of the

electorate.

Results will be announced immediately after they are tabulated and

confirmed.

We encourage all LegalXML participants to consider serving

on the Steering Committee. Please contact (member-services@oasis-open.org)

with any questions you might have regarding this process.

[1] http://www.legalxml.org/governance/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ms_policy.php

[3] http://www.legalxml.org/governance/rules_of_procedures.shtml

[4] http://www.legalxml.org/members/index.shtml

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/join/

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

Thank you,

Dee

Dee Schur, Manager of Member Support

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

+1.978.667.5115 x211

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