[AFIX Members] 2024 Board Elections & AGM

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 12 Sep 2024, at 5:13, Sylvain BAYA wrote:

> d. i. which may allow us to authorize an
> eligible voter (i offer to do it for CAMIX
> if agreed) who have not yet cast its
> vote to vote one side;
> d. v. seems to validate my *forced*
> understanding of d. i.

that does not sound reasonable to me.

if you want to allow a single additional vote, then you would have to open this up to anyone else that didn’t vote for whatever reason.
*every* exchange member (?) is eligible.  and since we don’t have - and will hopefully *never* have af-ix fees - that will always be the subset of IXPs that are in our region.  (until, af-ix gets members from out of region)
polling the entire af-ix list, for that subset of peers isn’t a scalable way to solve this.

a key point to the Working operations of any volunteer organisation, is that the mechanics are easy to operate.  if you make this complicated to use, you’ll quickly lose volunteers.


>> The board is deliberating on the way forward and will provide an
>> update soon. The Articles of Association does not clearly cater for
>> this situation so we may propose an amendment to clarify the procedure
>> to follow in such cases going forward.


i would suggest:
- is it a *requirement* that you have this additional candidate?  for example, substantively affect your quorum?
- can you simply move ahead with the people you have now, and, at your next election, just elect one more person
.. or *MUST* you have a third seat filled immediately?

this seems a positive way to move forward, and still respecting openness and transparency, whilst you deliberate a long-term. but easy to apply, fix.

—n.