At Joomla! we care about transparency and openness, so we want to share further details about the Officers’ Election which closed yesterday. The results were published on the 12th August here.

We would like to thank all the volunteers who were nominated and all the people who supported this election process.

As this was the first election conducted after Transition, we were working with new rules and processes, and would like to apologise for some areas where we didn’t get it right this time. We would like to assure you that we have listened to the concerns raised and will be sure not to repeat them in future.

The Officer positions up for election in Group 1 were Vice President and Treasurer.

• Vice President: 3 nominations received, 2 accepted.
• Treasurer: 2 nominations received, 1 accepted.

The lesson learned

In the case of the Vice President election, sadly we made a mistake by not contacting the winner and loser simultaneously. The winner announced their election prior to the official announcement and the loser found out through social media, instead of an official email.  We will ensure that announcement emails are sent out simultaneously in future and would like to take this opportunity to remind candidates that they should not share announcements before the official blog post has been published. This and all the other lessons learned during this election will be organised into an Election Framework that will be used and followed strictly in all future elections.

How it works

According to our Bylaws, Section 6.02 (E), voting for officers is done as follows:

• All current Officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer) cast one (1) vote for each position open. Four (4) votes for each position open.
• All the Department Coordinators and Team Leaders, under each Department cast one (1) vote for each position open.  The number of votes within each department are tallied and the winning candidate within the department vote becomes the vote for that department. Six (6) votes for each position open.
• This results in 10 votes for each position open: 6 Departments and 4 Officers.

For further information, please review our Bylaws:

https://www.opensourcematters.org/organisation/by-laws-policies.html

The Results

The Group 1 Election for 2017 had 40 people with the right to vote (Team Leaders, Department Coordinators and Officers); 39 people voted, 1 abstained.

Election forms were automatically closed at 23.59 UTC on August 12, 2017.

A big thank you to the whole Joomla! Community for the participation!

A full summary of the voting results of the 2017 Group 1 Officers election can be found below.