Greetings Fellow FORVM
Classical Numismatics Discussion Board Members,
It has now been almost a year since the 5th Forvm
Website Awards Nomination Committee (
Comitia Curiata) convened. We on that six-seat body
hope you are pleased with how the Program has been operating. It is now nearing the time when the 5th Committee's authority will expire on August 3rd. This means that Committee Member elections are just around the corner, roughly covering the month of July. These elections will be for
membership on the 6th Committee, whose mandate will span from 4 August 2009 to 3 August 2010.
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 6th 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 July 2009. 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 5th Forvm
Website Awards Nomination CommitteeP.S.: If you are wondering exactly how the elections will take place, here is the framework from the "Rules for the Awards":
12. There will be an annual elections process to choose
members of the Forvm
Website Awards Nomination Committee (six seats), including the Chairperson. It will take place during June and July; new terms begin every August 4th. Board
members may change or remove their votes in a poll as long as it is open.
12a. 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.
12b. Candidates for Chairperson must have at least 100 posts and one year of
membership on FORVM's
Classical Numismatics Discussion Board at the time of their declarations for said office.
12c.
A post will be made by the Chairperson by June 1st in the Committee's Yahoo! Group asking current
Members to declare their intentions for serving in the next term. A public post will be made by the same day asking for any candidates from the public to run for the office of Chairperson. Another public post will be made on that day for people to declare their candidacies for the
Standard Seats. Candidates must have a Yahoo! account or obtain one by August 4th in order to communicate with the Committee. The deadline for responses to all calls is 0000 GMT 1 July.
12d. The regular Award polls will cease during Committee Member elections.
12e. There will be a competitive poll starting on or near July 1st for the office of Chairperson (unless a Rule 12g situation occurs). It will run for a 10-day period. If the incumbent loses, then he/she may
still run for a
Standard Seat afterwards. An incumbent will be labeled as such.
12f. There will be a competitive poll to fill the
Standard Seats of the Committee. It will run for a 14-day period right after the Chairperson's poll ends (unless a Rule 12g situation occurs). Incumbents will be labeled as such.
12g. If there is an equal or lesser number of candidates than Seats, then those candidates will be admitted to the next Committee automatically without election.
12h. If by 0000 GMT 1 July there are fewer declared candidates than Seats, a first-come, first-served policy will be in effect for as long as necessary to fill the vacant Seat(s).
12i. If there is a tie between certain candidates that involves fifth place, then there will be a 7-day runoff between said candidates.
12j. The Vice-Chairperson will be either chosen in the new Committee if consensus can be reached or by a 10-day public election poll held after
Standard Seat elections.
