approved change to clarify terms of Board members

- Sets term of Board members to three years
- Defines cohorts of Board seats so that a third
  are elected each year

Signed-off-by: Galen Charlton <gmc@esilibrary.com>
Signed-off-by: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt@gmail.com>

diff --git a/governance.txt b/governance.txt
index 67b5fd4..f1863c8 100644 (file)
--- a/governance.txt
+++ b/governance.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,23 @@ Composition
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 [loweralpha]
-  . Initially, the Board shall consist of its founding members, named in Appendix A.
+  . The Board shall consist of eleven members.
+
+Term
+~~~~
+
+[loweralpha]
+  . The term of each Board member is three years.
+  . At the end of the Evergreen Conference for a calendar year,
+    the term of outgoing Board members will end and the term
+    of incoming Board members will begin.  If no Evergreen Conference 
+    is held during a calendar year, terms will begin and end at
+    midnight EDT on April 30.
+  . One-third of the Board positions shall be open for election each
+    year.  To implement this, each Board seat shall be designated a
+    member of a cohort labeled "A", "B", or "C".  Appendix A lists
+    the cohort and next election date for Board members as of
+    12 April 2013.
 
 Officers
 ~~~~~~~~
@@ -232,21 +248,21 @@ License
 Portions of this document were adapted from the Fedora Project Board description. This content
 is available under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
 
-Initial Board Members
----------------------
+Appendix A -- Board cohorts
+---------------------------
 
 [options="header"]
+|=================================================================
+| Cohort | Current Member | Seat up for election
+| A | Rogan Hamby | 2015
+| A | Ben Hyman | 2015
+| A | Kathy Lussier | 2015
+| B | Lori Ayre | 2013
+| B | Jim Corridan | 2013
+| B | Dan Scott | 2013
+| B | Amy Terlaga | 2013
+| C | Galen Charlton | 2014
+| C | Stephen Elfstrand | 2014
+| C | Elizabeth McKinney | 2014
+| C | Stephen Wills | 2014
 |=====================================================================
-| Name | E-Mail Address | Affiliation
-| Lori Ayre | lori.ayre@galecia.com |
-| Jim Corridan | jcorridan@icpr.in.gov | Indiana State Library
-| Galen Charlton | gmc@esilibrary.com |
-| Tim Daniels | tim.daniels@lyrasis.org |
-| Stephen Elfstrand | stephen.elfstrand@mnsu.edu |
-| Elizabeth McKinney | emckinney@georgialibraries.org | Georgia Public Library Service
-| Michele Montague | mmontagu@grpl.org |
-| Dan Scott   | dan@coffeecode.net |
-| Amy Terlaga | terlaga@biblio.org |
-| Steve Wills | steve.wills@lyrasis.org |
-|=====================================================================
-