All,
I am getting ready to call a vote on this. I’ll do so on Monday Sept 23, 2019 with a one week voting window. The electorate will be be current electorate, @Stan_Development_Team, “Stan Developers Only” members as of today. This will be handled via Helios voting.
Make this proposal what you want it to be folks. If the referendum fails to pass then we keep the current electorate. If we have two or more viable competing proposals we will use approval voting.
Proposed method of electorate selection:
"The Stan community electorate will be determined by a committee of at least 3 members appointed by the Stan Governing Body (SGB). One member will be the executive director. The committee is free to define its own operating rules but they are subject to approval by the SGB.
The provisional rules are:
Anyone who has done any of the following can expect automatic approval by the electorate committee:
- Attendance at any StanCon.
- Being an author on a Stan paper or paper that uses Stan.
- Submission of an accepted pull request.
- Funding Stan.
- ???
The list is not meant to be exhaustive but guidelines. There are many ways to demonstrate importance to the Stan community. Anyone can ask to join the electorate by emailing electorate@mc-stan.org.
Upon successful passing of this resolution and a new electorate of at least 40 people being accepted then the old electorate of “Stan Developers Only” will be replaced with the new electorate.
Failure to vote will result in removal from the voting rolls. Reinstatement will be not withheld without reason but no retroactive voting is allowed after the vote is closed.
The committee can remove/refuse a member for any reason. The member can appeal to the SGB.
Votes will he held using the helios voting system which requires an email address (https://helios.org) and administered by the electorate committee.
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