Results of the 2015 Election to the X.Org BoD & Vote on the By-Law Changes

[Stephen Chandler Paul]

The reason for me not voting was mostly because I've been busy with
college as of late, and I didn't feel like it was right to vote on
something that I didn't have the right knowledge on. Had I known that
such a majority was required and wasn't going to be provided by anyone
else though, I would gladly squeeze in the time to go through the
by-laws and make an educated vote.

Cheers,
	Lyude
	AKA Stephen Chandler Paul

On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 08:27 +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, April 9, 2015, Egbert Eich <eich at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>         Therefore the following people have been elected to
>         the Board:
>         
>         Peter Hutterer
>         Martin Peres
>         Rob Clark
>         Daniel Vetter
> 
> 
> Congratulations all, and commiserations to Stuart and Emil.
>  
>         2. On the question:
>         
>         Do you agree to the changed By-Laws?
>         No 2
>         Abstain 4
>         Yes 35
>         
>         According to Article 7 of the Oct. 29, 2006 By-Laws the
>         following
>         provision is made for changes to the By-Laws:
>         
>          "AMENDMENT These By-law may be altered, amended or repealed
>         by
>           an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the
>         Members
>           of X.Org."
>         
>         With 69 active Members a two-thirds of the Members of X.Org is
>         46.
>         This would be the number of affirmative votes required for
>         acceptance.
>         This was clearly missed. Therefore the changes to the By-Laws
>         were not accepted.
> 
> 
> That's incredibly disappointing, especially with such a resounding
> majority of those who did vote in favour.
> 
> 
> Do we have a good sense of why turnout is so low? How does this
> compare with previous elections, including the last bylaw revision?
> And, more importantly, where to from here?
> 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who put in all the effort to try to make this
> happen.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel 
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