[Cz-editcouncil] Election of the Editorial Council Chair

Tue Mar 18 23:45:35 CDT 2008

Dear All,
Here is the list of citizens (editors) that satisfies the items marked 1-4
in the rules (Section II of) [
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Resolution_0007 ], i.e.,
citizens who
(1) have made his or her first edit of the wiki at least one month prior to
the present time (3.18.08);
(2) have edited the main namespace or the main talk namespace of wiki, in
good faith, at least 20 times in the past year; and
(3) have made at least one edit in the last three months.
(4) be at least 25 years old and have a four-year college degree (or
equivalent, in the judgment of the Selection Official), unless the person
occupies one of the elected positions.
AND
(5) As per
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Resolution_0007#VI._Council_start-up_period.
"who voted on at least one-half of the resolutions for which they were not
disqualified from voting for any reason. "
(i) Larry Sanger - However, as the EIC he may continue as a non-voting
member in the EC
(ii) Supten Sarbadhikari
(iii) Martin Baldwin-Edwards
(iv) Gary Giamboi
(v) John Moffett
(vi) Anh Nguyen
(vii) Jochen Wendebaum
(viii) David Tribe
(ix) David Goodman
(x) David Shapinsky
(xi) Anthony Sebastian
(xii) Richard Jensen
(xiii) Regina Bouillon
(xiv) Jaime Nubiola and
(xv) Matt Innis - since he is a member of the Constabulary, he may have to
relinquish any one position as per rules.

Please let me know, within a week, whether the above named editors would
like to continue in the new EC.
With warmest regards
Supten

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari <supten at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
> The
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Rules_of_Procedure#Editorial_Council_rolesnow points to
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Resolution_0007#V._Selection_of_the_Editorial_Council_Chair
> .
> Para 4 of the Section V states: "After one week, the Chair announces the
> candidates. A private balloting is then done by the Secretary, who allots
> one week for the vote and who announces the result. All members, including
> outgoing members, may participate in this vote."
> Since Larry is himself not a candidate for the post of the Chair, he may
> conduct the private balloting.
> If he can announce the candidates latest by March 24, 2008, then the
> s/election for the Chair of the EC can be completed by March 31, 2008 and
> the new Chair and the new EC can take charge from Tuesday April 01, 2008.
> I have written to the competent authority for providing me with the list
> of editors eligible to be the members of the Editorial Council, as per the
> rules.
> Only on the basis of voting on the Resolutions proposed so far, there are
> 20 members who qualify. Among them 2 are also part of the Executive
> Committee and / or Constabulary. The number is likely to be further reduced
> when the count of edits is available.
> Please feel free to clarify any doubts you may have.
> With warmest regards
> Supten
> Secretary and Selection Official, CZ Editorial Council
> --
> Dr. S N Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD
> Founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics
> PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
> Peelamedu, Coimbatore 641 004
> Tamil Nadu, INDIA
> Email: drsupten at yahoo.com, supten at gmail.com
> Homepage: (1) www.geocities.com/drsupten
> (2) http://myprofile.cos.com/supten
> (3) http://medicineonearth.com/display.php?id=1642
> Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Medical Informatics [
> http://ijmi.org/index.php/ijmi ]
> Editorial Board Member: Mental Health and Physical Activity - Elsevier<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/714078/editorialboard#editorialboard>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org>
> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I will soon be replaced as Chair.  According to the newly-passed rules,
> > the
> > Editorial Council Chair is replaced each year from among the people who
> > entered the Council in the previous year--and, in the present case, it
> > is
> > important to add: from among the people who are eligible to continue on
> > the
> > Council in the coming year.
> >
> > We have run past a certain deadline, I'm afraid!  The Chair was supposed
> > call for nominees for new Chair in the first week of March, but that was
> > impossible since the resolution wasn't adopted until March 13.
> >  Therefore, I
> > propose the following schedule:
> >
> > 1. The Secretary (Supten) presents me with a list of current members who
> > are
> > eligible, according to the rules, to continue for the next year on the
> > Council and (therefore) to serve as Chair.  If you are concerned about
> > your
> > eligibility see   Hopefully he'll have this done in the next few days.
> >
> > 2. I immediately call for (private) nominations from among these
> > members.
> > (Again, hopefully in the next few days.)  Reminders are posted after 3
> > and 6
> > days.
> >
> > 3. As nominations come in, I contact the nominees to see whether they
> > can
> > attest to time and support requirements in the rules.
> >
> > 4. One week after the call for nominations (approximately March 26), the
> > nominations close.  The candidates are immediately announced.
> >
> > 5. The Secretary does a private balloting, unless the Secretary is among
> > the
> > nominees, in which case I propose to nominate another person to do the
> > balloting.  Note that outgoing members are eligible to vote!
> >
> > 6. Of course, the nominees may use cz-editcouncil and/or the wiki to
> > post
> > any statements they would like to make.
> >
> > 7. The Secretary (or other balloting official) announces the result
> > after
> > one week, or--probably--at the same time that the new Council members
> > are
> > announced.
> >
> > The soon-to-be-ex-Chair
> >
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