The following candidates have been nominated for the nine

available positions of Director within the Board of Directors of

The Apache Software Foundation, as defined by Article V of the

ASF Bylaws. In order to maximize effective representation

of all members of the ASF, the 2002-2003 Board of Directors

has resolved that such an election will be decided according

to the Single Transferable Vote (STV) election process, as

described below.

STV:

Board elections are performed via Single Transferable Vote (STV). Each

voter lists all the people they want to see elected in order of

preference. Excess votes for people who have already reached their quota

(i.e., enough votes to ensure election) and also for the candidate with

the least votes are redistributed to lower-numbered choices. This process

is repeated until the required number are elected. Please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

Election results are calculated using Meek's method for STV:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Single_Transferable_Votes#Meek.27s_method

The key idea to keep in mind is that the ordering of your votes

is crucial. Those who you *really* want to be elected should

be at the beginning/start of the list. For example:

Aragorn, Frodo, Bilbo, Sauron, Gandalf, Treebeard, Gollum, Gimli

means that you really want Aragorn to be elected (he's

your primary preferred person), followed by Frodo (you want

Frodo on the board more than you want Bilbo and Sauron, but

not as much as you want Aragorn), followed by Bilbo, etc...

There are 9 slots available; you should select all the candidates you

want to be on the board, in the order in which you prefer them. You can

select less than 9 people, and you can also select more than 9 people.

More information can be found at: foundation:/voter

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Nominations:

Label Name

<list here>

Candidate nomination and position statements can be found at:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/Meetings/YYYYMMDD/board_ballot_YYYY_MM.txt

https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/Meetings/YYYYMMDD/board_nominations.txt