Eclipse Foundation Election Process

The process for the Eclipse Foundation’s annual elections is described below.

Each year, the Eclipse Foundation holds elections for board members representing two very important groups within the Eclipse membership: the Committers and the Sustaining Members. The number of these elected representatives is a ratio of the total number of Strategic Members.

For 2009, there are four elected Committer Member representatives and four elected Sustaining Member representatives.
These elections are held pursuant to Sections 3.3 and 3.5 of the Eclipse Foundation Bylaws.
The term of office for these elected board members is one year, commencing April 1.
Voting for the elected board members is done using single transferrable voting.
Each Sustaining Member gets one vote.
Each Committer Member gets one vote. Note that committers who are employees of Member companies have all the rights and privileges (including voting) of a Committer Member.

Individual committers must join the Eclipse Foundation as Committer Members by signing the Membership Agreement in order to be allowed to vote.

All committers who are employees of a single company have their votes collapsed into a single vote in the committer elections.
Voting is done electronically via a web interface on www.eclipse.org. Each eligible voter is provided with the URL and a userid and password with which to vote several days in advance of the voting.