openSUSE Petition for the re-election of the openSUSE Board

Back in March, openSUSE member Pierre Böckmann wrote to the project mailing list calling for a non-confidence vote following recent events . Technically that means he was calling for a re-election of the current elected board.

The board election rules state:

If 20 per cent or more of the openSUSE members require a new board, an election will be held for the complete elected Board seats.

The openSUSE Election Committee was tasked to find our whether 20% of the community are actually calling for the re-election.

We have at our disposal the Helios voting platform which we can use to register an "answer" from community members. Instead of running a vote with several answer options, we consulted among Election Officials, and agreed that there will be only one answer to select, which will represent a virtual signature, similar to like signing an electronic petition. That will allow us to effectively measure whether 20% of the community are petitioning for a re-election of the openSUSE Board.

I sent an email to the project mailing list, on behalf on the Election Committee, explaining this process and called for comments by community members. If you are reading this post and would like to share your views about the procedure, then the deadline for comments submission is 20 May 2020 23h59 CET.