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<span
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Council</a> is asking the community for feedback about
Thunderbird governance, which will be considered in designing the
future of the council. We encourage you to help publicize this
effort by posting this message in its entirety in other venues
frequented by Thunderbird users.</span>
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</span><span
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are splitting our requests for feedback into manageable pieces,
each of which will cover different aspects of governance. This
is the first message of a short series over the coming weeks.
This first request is for feedback specifically on the <b>method
of conducting elections</b>. Future messages will cover other
topics, for example composition of the Council.</span><span
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- Past Elections</span><span
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</span><span
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following is a summary of past elections. To date three
councils have been elected, each using a different process. In
2014 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2014/11/thunderbird-reorganizes-at-2014-toronto-summit/">the
first Thunderbird Council of seven was elected</a> by a
typical nomination process of those present and simple majority
vote at a fall summit meeting of 22 very active Thunderbird
contributors. </span><span
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</span><span
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fall 2015 discussion began in tb-planning for the second
council, in such subjects as "Council Elections" and
"Reorganizing the Council", with a goal of having the community
elect the council. Voting in February 2016 used <a
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href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tb-planning/7RdupcgF-8w/lV88TzYbFQAJ">the
following process</a>, "The existing Council will serve as a
nominating committee, and recruit candidates who agree to serve
on a renewed Council. (This could be existing Council members or
new people.) This slate of candidates would then be presented to
tb-planning for a single vote [by anyone active on tb-planning],
much like the one a year ago, to see if there is consensus.".
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tb-planning/qe9nSci89rY/Tlit7oZXFgAJ">slate
and voting process was announced</a>, and the <a
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href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/tb-planning/FMBkc7wYmDQ">results
also posted on tb-planning</a>.</span><span
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</span><span
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2017 the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/#%21topic/tb-planning/Fq6qggT6IMo">third
council election process</a> established a public list of
electors, who are active project contributors per criteria
defined by the Council. Electors discussed on the tb-election
mailing list, and then nominated and voted to seat seven council
members using “ranked choice” with the STV method. <a
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href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/tb-planning/5QNL06qVY4g">Results
were announced on tb-planning</a>. The election was run by
volunteers who were not members of the council. The council was
pleased with the results, and there were no major complaints
from the community.</span></p>
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Elections</span><span
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</span><span
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this message we are looking for your feedback on the 2018
election process, namely nominating and voting for council
members. Feedback will be reviewed by the council, the results
summarized back to the community and used by the Thunderbird
Council to inform the process to be used in the 2018 election.</span><span
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Please send feedback (idea or concern) with subject "Thunderbird
Governance 2018 - Council Elections" (the subject of this email)
to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:governance@thunderbird.net">governance@thunderbird.net</a>,
<b>NOT tb-planning</b>. Please formulate your feedback as a <a
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href="http://www.aleanjourney.com/2009/11/defining-problem-statement.html">problem
statement</a>, with or without a potential solution. </span></p>
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</span><span
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example, you might offer feedback on defining the electorate, as
in the past this has been a challenging aspect of the process.</span></p>
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36pt;"><span
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electorate of 2017, while being inclusive, did not include
population X, and they should be included because of reason Y.
And here is how you might identify or define this population...”</span></p>
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we encourage you to respond if you think the previous procedure
used was adequate, so we can properly gauge the opinion of the
community for electing the Council.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Please
send your response by Monday November 20. Please post this
message in its entirety in other venues frequented by
Thunderbird users.</span></p>
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you for your interest in Thunderbird.</span></p>
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Thunderbird Council</span><span
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