The Plone Foundation was formed in 2006 and received only one revision to its bylaws in 2008. The Foundation Board has been considering ways in which to improve how the Board can better reflect the evolving Plone community and the challenges its family faces. The Board needs to onboard new members while protecting its stability and continuity.
A summary of what is being proposed follows:
Two-year terms for board members
The main change proposed to the bylaws is to institute two-year terms for Board members, using two staggered cohorts. In this cohort scheme, the current seven seats would be divided into a 3-seat cohort that would be up for election in 2023 and a 4-seat cohort up for election in 2024. In subsequent years, there would be elections for the alternating cohorts of 3 and 4 seats.
Inclusive language
While formulating the proposed changes to the bylaws, we noted that there were many places in which unnecessarily gendered language had been used. So we propose to change that.
Voting
Who can vote
All Active Plone Foundation Members will be able to vote as long as their e-mail addresses are updated on the Membership mailing list by August 16th.
Emeritus Members first must request the transition to Active before August 16th.
Process
From August 17-24 , 2023, using the OpaVote platform, each Foundation Member will be allowed to vote on the proposed changes.
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