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Executive Council
This page explains the role and constitution of Executive Council, appointed by a Council Vote of the Open Council.
Executive Council members plays a vital role in executing governance of Foundation's initiatives.
Some examples are below:
- 1.Amendments to the policies and directives of the Foundation's governance constitution.
- 2.Maintaining the Foundation's legal existence and compliance to governing laws of the jurisdictions in which the Foundation and its affiliates are registered in.
- 3.Ratification of Council Committee actions and member resolutions from Foundation's open source communities.
- 4.Protection of brand of the Foundation.
- 5.Appointment of members on several committees.
- 6.Appointment of officers of the Foundation.
- 7.Treasury Management
Executive Committee is an apex constitutional body and is constituted from the Foundation's Open Council and the member's appointment is an electoral process.
Appointment to Executive Committee is conducted after every two years though a General election.
About Nominations: A candidate may self nominate themselves for the membership to Executive Committee.Before a candidate files for nomination to the Executive Committee, following should be taken into consideration:
Note: Each Council Committee appoints a single member(generally Committee's Chair) to reserve a vote whether to accept or reject a candidate's nomination.
This means that each Council Committee Chair naturally holds a Veto against a nomination.
This ensures that quality leaderships and human virtues are upheld during the election process. (Read more on what each Committee is responsible for.)
Once candidate's nominations achieve quorum with the Council committees, all nominations are then put to vote by the community.
On Election:
Each community member has a single vote to a candidate's nomination.
The candidates who receive more than half of all votes registered by participating community members, are then appointed to the Executive Committee.
After Election:
The elected members to the Executive Committee shall then resolve to appoint a Chancellor amongst themselves.
A general guideline is to appoint a Chancellor with the highest number of votes received in the election.
About Chancellor of Muellners Foundation:
a. A Chancellor is responsible for the direction of Foundation's open source initiatives.
b. Council Committees act as counsel to the Chancellor, well within each committee's guidelined roles.
c. A Chancellor is impeachable and if the Executive Committee decides then a Vice Chancellor may also be appointed.
Following are the causes that the Executive Council commits to:
a. Maintenance of Foundation's infrastructure (funds, office, administrative, IT infrastructure etc)as the Executive Council's primary function.
b. Welcome constructive observation of Foundation's direction and value from the Observation and Ethics Council.
c. Welcome accelerated participation in direction of the Foundation's vision from the Project Committees.
d. Welcome enforcement of rights of the Foundation's community in the form of Legal Council.
e. Create Outreach in the form of Media Council.
f. Welcome advise on Foundation's direction in the form of Advisory Council.