[Cz-editcouncil] S/Election of the new Editorial Council

Tue Mar 18 23:46:54 CDT 2008

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Dr.Supten Sarbadhikari <supten at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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