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CANDIDATES

• Submit your nominations here: Board11/Nominations

PERSONNEL

Election Coordinator

• Appointed at the end of each cycle by the existing Election Coordinator (see below)
• One-year commitment, one time only
• Anyone may volunteer for this position except for current board members (past board members are OK)

CALENDAR

April 4

• Election cycle begins, begin to solicit nominees
• Make banner graphic and put it on the front of freeculture.org
• Blog post with key dates and description of what the board is/does
• Tweet it
• Email chapters@, discuss@
  • This message should be very easy for chapter leaders to fwd to chapter members
• Nominees can begin to accept/reject nominations

April 11

• Confirm candidates
  • Deadline for nominees to accept
• Announce candidate names, chapters
  • Tweet, blog, chapters@, discuss@
• Candidates respond to prompt(s) on wiki page
  • 5 "thought" or "vision" questions regarding the future of SFC
  • Prompts written by Election Coordinator
• Set up Selectricity and issue tokens to chapter leaders
  • Send email to chapters@ explaining the voting process

April 18

• Voting begins
• Selectricity is open for business
• Re-send email to chapters@ explaining how to vote

April 30

• Voting closes
• Selectricity does not accept any more votes

May 1

• Announce the election results
  • Blog, tweet, chapters@, discuss@
• Add new board members to board@
• Existing board and new board plan a conference call to discuss transition
• Create new category on wiki for BoardYY (e.g. Board11 for 2011-2012 school year)
• Appoint next Election Coordinator
• Election cycle ends