* Each openSUSE member can vote.
* Special role for the first election: Each openSUSE member can vouch
for one person that should be part of the openSUSE community and
this person can vote.
* Special role for the first election: After the announcement - and
before the election - there will be a 4 week period where people can
apply to be openSUSE members.
* An openSUSE election team will be created. It consists of 3 people.
Neither of them can be elected as openSUSE board member.
* The openSUSE board will ask on the opensuse-project mailing list for
volunteers for the openSUSE election team and select appropriate
candidates. At least one member of the election team will be a
Novell employee and at least one member will be not a Novell
employee.
* The openSUSE board election period is two years and every year half
of the board will be elected.
For the first election, the Novell and non-Novell members with the
most votes will be elected for two years, the second runners for one
year.
* openSUSE board members can serve for up to two consecutive
election periods. After that they have to pause for one year.
* openSUSE members will be choosen by the openSUSE election team. Any
decisions in this regard can be changed by the openSUSE board.