OGB 2009/009 ReleaseNotes

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Last year, the OGB presented a proposed new OpenSolaris constitution that attempted to address some of the shortcomings identified in the existing one. Due to a combination of participation/quorum and content issues, the proposal didn't get approved.

The OGB has addressed many of the structural/quorum issues since the election, and are actively working to improve the proposal's content. We are using co-ment.net's group document review service to review and update the working draft.

Previous versions of the Constitution can be found at the OGB's website.

Current Version Under Review

Please review the current draft constitution online and make comments.

CURRENT DRAFT CONSTITUTION

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Changelog

V2.1 Alpha4

  • Typos and other obvious fixes
  • Add 0: Context and change Intro to Purpose
  • Preamble: Use "community"?
  • Introduction: Must also conform with Constitution
  • Introduction: Shall
  • 1.1: Can participants do this?
  • 1.3: Shall
  • 1.4: Duplicate right?
  • 2.1.3: Choices
  • 2.1.3: Join or renew
  • 3.1: Inconsistent
  • 3.1: Move to preamble?
  • 3.4.1: Physically signed?
  • 3.4.1: And if not?
  • 3.6: Still needs to have an advance notice period
  • 3.6: Process document
  • 3.8: In case of multiple Board members
  • 5.0: How should board oversight be included for constitutional ammendments

v2.1 Alpha3

  • s1.1: Wording changes to clarify group relationships
  • Make the Preamble and Introduction seperate, with wordsmithing
  • changed tense of the comment in the intro from "tried to do" to "did"
  • s1.0: clarified and expanded community structure
  • Contributors and Leaders voting confusion - earlier drafts inadvertently gave Contributors (and not Leaders) the vote in a collective)
  • nonstandard group management policies need to be approved by the OGB (the expectation is that if the existing policies don't work, we should fix them rather than balkanizing)
  • Quorum and voter rolls for an election are set (date of record) 10 days before the start of an election.
  • Removed the roll call on IRC and instead depend on voting to determine whether quorum is met.
  • s3.4: replacement OGB candidates from the last election must not only be available but also willing to serve.
  • s3.4.1: a replacement board needs more than 30 days to call an election, since the announcement of a special election must be given no less than 30 days in advance.... Changed the timer to 45 days.

v2.1 Alpha2

  • consequences of missing the annual election deadline
  • changed 13 month max to 14 for annual elections
  • clarified electorate as a group type...

v2.1 Alpha1

  • Added a placeholder preamble and introduction
  • Rearranged "electorate" discussion to keep it together
  • Added consequences for Members not participating in elections
  • Clarified voting ("one vote" could be taken to conflict with STV/Meeks methodology...)
  • Missing an annual election by more than a month (13 from last) causes automatic dissolution of OGB
  • Minimum board membership is 3 (not 4) to align with charter.
  • "Sun" Liaison changed to "Corporate" Liaison to allow for Oracle/Sun corporate name change
  • The Board Secretary is responsible for ensuring all constitutional amendments meet the requirements of the Charter.
  • s3.6: Clarified regular OGB meetings
  • s3.9: Clarified "official voice"

v2.1 Alpha

Incorporated Talk/Discussion comments from last election cycle. The OGB started with the version presented at last year's election and incorporated most of the feedback received during and after the election cycle:
  • There should no longer be any disconnects between the Charter and this proposal, and thus no need to touch the Charter.
  • It now includes the statement that "All software produced by the OpenSolaris Community shall be licensed to the public free of charge under one or more open source licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. "
  • The responsibilities expected from each community role are enumerated.
  • The triggers for Board dissolution (and the consequences thereof) were clarified

v2.0

Baseline from 2009 annual election This final version represents the reorganization and simplification of the community that the OGB approved in Aug and Sept 2008. References for this document include the following:
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