Greetings Fellow FORVM
Classical Numismatics Discussion Board Members,
The 7th Forvm
Website Awards Nomination Committee (
Comitia Curiata) is nearing the end of its term. We on that six-seat body
hope you are pleased with how the Program has been operating. This means that Committee Member elections are just around the corner, roughly covering the month of December. These elections will be for
membership on the 8th Committee, whose mandate will span from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012.
Therefore, this post is a call for candidates from the public
membership of the FORVM
Discussion Board. Do you want to be a candidate in the
Standard Seat elections for the 8th Committee?
Committee
Members receive the "
Comitia Curiata" title in their profile but that is not just an honorary title, it is a working one. Here are the duties of a
Standard Committee Member:
- Receive website nominations from the public, review them for appropriate criteria, and forward satisfactory ones to the Committee as a whole
- Consider websites submitted by other Committee
Members- Introduce eligible websites personally found
- Receive website nominations from the public during the
Annual Awards- Consider Operational legislation brought before the Committee
- If thought of, introduce Operational legislation that may
help improve the Awards Process
- Vote in the public polls
- Promote the Awards
Candidates and Committee
Members will also be bound by the following Rules:
"Committee Member candidates, from the time they declare their candidacies, must also be
members of FORVM's
Classical Numismatics Discussion Board.
Membership on said
Discussion Board must be maintained by Committee
Members until the end of their service on said Committee."
"Committee
Members must not accept or receive any gifts from the business of "
FORVM Ancient Coins", especially for their services in the Forvm
Website Awards Program, while they are on the Committee or after they declared their candidacies to serve on it. They may receive compensation, regularly available to all in the general public, for goods and services rendered to FORVM the business or to the resources it provides as well as any free goods and services offered by FORVM the business to the general public. FORVM Staff are prohibited from serving on the Forvm
Website Awards Nomination Committee, except for those temporarily given that title and power for the purpose of uncompensated improvements to the FORVM website."
"Committee
Members, from the time they declare their candidacies, must not accept or receive any gifts from
members of the
Classical Numismatics Discussion Board or owners of websites eligible for a Forvm
Website Award, especially for their services in the Forvm
Website Awards Program. All goods and services which are not
part of a
shopping bonus and have a definable commercial value that are accepted or received from such people must be paid for in said value or exchanged for gifts of similar value (for example, in Holiday observances and coin trading).
Footnote"
All Committee
Members must also have a Yahoo! account so they can join the Committee's Discussion Group.
If you want to declare your candidacy, make a post to this thread. This call will expire at 0000 GMT 1 December 2011. If you wish to do so, feel free to campaign positively.
If you want to see the Yahoo! Group and what the Committee is all about in action, here it is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FORVM_Awards_Committee/Thank You,
The 7th Forvm
Website Awards Nomination CommitteeElections Supervisor for the 8th: Pep
