The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is extending the deadline for sending in additional candidacies by one day. The new deadline will be Thursday, 25th of May, 23:59 UTC.
Thanks, 2017-05-12 9:30 GMT+02:00 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>: > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to > announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring > 2017. > > The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: > > *GNOME Board Elections 2017* > 2017-05-12: List of candidates opens. > 2017-05-24: Last day to announce candidacies, submit > summary statements. > 2017-05-25: Final list of candidates. > 2017-05-26: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, > voting begins. > 2017-06-09: Voting closes. > 2017-06-12: Preliminary results are announced. > 2017-06-19: Last day to challenge preliminary results. > > > ELECTIONS > ========= > > The seven members of our current Board of Directors have been ruling > GNOME for 12 months now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have > to elect what will be the Board of Directors for the next year. > > > CANDIDACY > ========= > > If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME > Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to > foundation-announce@gnome.org with your full > name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and your reasons for > wanting to serve as a director. > > Candidacies must be announced prior to 2017-05-24, 23:59 UTC. > > All discussion related to the elections should be held on > foundation-list. Members are invited to ask questions to one or all > candidates on that list (see below). > > A list of candidates will be announced on 2017-05-25. > > At this point, you are invited to ask the candidates questions by > sending them to foundation-list. These candidates might become your > representative, so do not hesitate to ask them questions. > > Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have > already asked. Also, bear in mind that the candidates invest a lot of > time answering questions, so please be reasonable with the amount and > scope of the questions. You can also send your questions to > membership-committee gnome org instead, so that the committee can > collect, sift and sort the questions before sending them to > foundation-list for the candidates to respond. Though, if you prefer > to ask your questions directly, please do so. > > > ELECTORATE > ========== > > Every GNOME Foundation member whose membership is valid as of > 2017-05-25 is eligible to vote in the elections. Please note that > Emeritus members won't have voting rights. More details about what > Emeritus members can and can't do are available at > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers. > > If you are not a member yet, please consider applying for membership > ASAP. Late applications will most likely not be processed in time. > > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee do inform > members they need to renew by mailing them once a month both on their > personal e-mail and on the foundation-list mailing list. We recommend > that members to also double check this to avoid a missed opportunity > to vote. Please verify that the email address that is associated with > your GNOME Foundation membership is valid and that you are able to > read emails sent to this address. With the introduction of > https://account.gnome.org verifying this information is now possible > by just loggin in with your GNOME Account. Your password can be reset > with the following command: > > ssh -l gnome_userid account.gnome.org > > A new password will be e-mailed directly to the registered e-mail for > your account. In case the above solution won't work or you don't know > what your username is please get in touch with the GNOME Accounts Team > at accou...@gnome.org > > You can verify your membership status by visiting > https://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php and looking for > your name, surname on the list of members. You can also verify your > last renewal date by highlighting your name, surname with your mouse > and waiting a little second for the date to appear correctly. > > > VOTING > ====== > > The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by > 2017-05-26 via email. > > The 7 candidates who receive the most votes as counted by a single > transferable vote system (Scottish STV) will be elected, except that > no more than two individuals affiliated with any one corporation may > be elected. > > In the event of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections > Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible. > > --- > > More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and > the voting process can be found here: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee > https://vote.gnome.org > > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Red Hatter, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, > Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av -- Cheers, Andrea Red Hatter, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
