[Chapter-delegates] Report of the 2008 ISOC Nominations Committee - 6 February 2008

[Terry Monroe]

Patrick Vande Walle, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, has asked that
this message be delivered on his behalf.

Regards,

Terry Monroe 
Director of Development and Membership 
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Report of the 2008 ISOC Nominations Committee - 6 February 2008

The call for Nominations for candidates for the 2008 election of the
Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (ISOC) Elections was published
on 30 November 2007. See:

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/nomcom/2008/call.shtml

This year, two Trustees will be elected by the ISOC Organizational
Members and one by the ISOC Chapters for three year terms.  

The Committee would like to thank everyone who submitted a
nomination and especially to every nominee who agreed to be
considered. Many nominations were received and it was a very
difficult task to choose between the many well-qualified nominees.

The Nominations Committee has selected four candidates to be included
in the ballot for the Organizational Membership Election and three
candidates to be included in the ballot for the Chapter Membership Election.

The selected candidates for Organizational Membership Election are:

Raul Echeberria
Laina Raveendran Greene
Daniel Karrenberg
Ganesh Natarajan

The selected candidates for the Chapters Election are:

Philippe Batreau
Calvin Browne
Alejandro Pisanty
 
Brief bios of the candidates will be posted as soon as they are 
available at:

http://www.isoc.org/members/vote/2008election/profiles

This announcement also invites additional nominations by petition for
candidates for the 2008 ISOC Board of Trustee Elections.

Additional nominations for election to the Board of Trustees may be made by
petition OF THE CANDIDATE, and filed with the Chair of the Nominations
Committee at <2008-petition-request at isoc.org>.

Separate petition mailboxes will be created for each valid petition request
that is received.

The petition request should include:

1. A statement whether the candidate wants to run for the Organizational
Members Election or the Chapters Election, including a statement that the
candidate will be able to devote an appropriate level of time to serve on
the ISOC Board of Trustees.

2. A short statement of what the petition candidate believes he or she would
contribute as a Trustee of the Internet Society.  All petition candidates
will be listed in periodic announcements to participating Chapters and
Organizational Members via electronic mail and will be posted on the ISOC
web site.

Signatures in support of a petition shall be filed electronically and must
be received by 23:59 UTC on the night of 10 March, 2008. For the purposes of
this policy, a "signature" shall be an email expressing support for the
candidate's petition sent by the Election Representative of a Chapter or
Organizational Member that is eligible to participate in this election, and
is subject to ISOC verification.
The message should include the Organizational Member's or Chapter's name and
the name of the candidate whose petition is supported.

Each signature must come directly from the Election Representative via email
to an address designated by the ISOC staff. The Election Representative must
send a separately e-mailed signature for each candidate he or she wishes to
support to the candidate's individual petition mailbox as designated by
ISOC. Each petitioner shall be provided with copies of all signature e-mails
for his or her candidacy and periodic reports about his or her status in
obtaining signatures. Announcements regarding successful petitions shall be
made as soon as practical, and need not await the end of the petition
period.

Participating Organizational Members or Chapters can sign petitions for
candidates running within their own constituency only. A Participating
Organizational Member or Chapter may sign more than one petition.

For a petition to be successful a candidate in the Organizational Members
constituency needs the support of 6 valid signatures and a candidate in the
Chapters constituency needs 6 valid signatures.

Successful petitioners will be placed on the ballot. The final candidate
announcement will be made no later than 13 March.

Patrick Vande Walle
2008 ISOC Nominations Committee Chair