OpenCSA Member Section Steering Committee Election Now Open

[Mike Kaiser <mkaiser@us.ibm.com>]

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 member-services@oasis-open.org;
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 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