BUIP079: Publication of BUIP vote and election dates in advance
Proposer: Gal Buki (@torusJKL)
Submitted on: 2017-11-19
Status: draft
Bitcoin Unlimited needs a healthy voting participation. Many members might not be very active on the forum and some have missed voting announcements.
Implementing a system that will give people the possibility to check less often and still be able to know about all voting dates.
Voting dates will be published at least 12 months in advance. Members would need to check not more than twice a year and mark the dates for themselves. Setting the dates remains the discretion of the secretary but there need to be a minimum of 4 dates per calendar year. The blank-voting dates of Switzerland (https://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/vab\_1\_3\_3\_1.html) could be used as a reference.
The BU Articles document, Article 2, IV will be amended with he following:
Voting dates are published at least 12 months advance notice on the BU communication channels. Each calendar year shall have no less than 4 voting dates spread over the whole year. Dates can be removed if they are not yet within the advance notice window. If there is no BUIP ready for voting on a predefined date than the voting will not take place and the date will not rescheduled. The predefined dates can be used for votes, elections or both at the same date.