Reminder that the list of candidates for the board of directors opened yesterday on May 7th. If you are interested in running for the board of directors, then I very much encourage you to do so. It is a great way to deepen ones involvement with GNOME and free software communities.
If you would like to see an example of how to announce your candidacy, I will share a link to the one I wrote last year: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-May/msg00010.html What does it take to be a good board member? In my experience, effective board members: - Have the time to dedicate to The GNOME Foundation and community. For example, I have found that I dedicate roughly 6-10 hours a week on GNOME Foundation activities. - Have a productive volunteer ethic, are involved with GNOME teams, participate in IRC meetings, etc. - Are effective and diplomatic communicators. The sort of people you often find helping to moderate difficult community discussions or helping to organize GNOME projects and committees. - Have experience working on the sorts of projects that The GNOME Foundation is involved with. For example, the GNOME Foundation invests a lot of energy organizing events, so having event planning experience can be a big help. Other examples would include experience with fund raising (Friends of GNOME), working with GNOME User's Groups, GNOME merchandise, etc. Brian On 04/17/12 05:14 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
Dear Foundation Members, The GNOME Foundation board of directors and the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2012. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2012* 2012-05-20: List of candidates closed 2012-05-27: Voting Begins 2012-06-10: Voting Ends 2012-06-19: Challenges End 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 a 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 and elections 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 2012-05-20, 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 2012-05-23. 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 in the range of the full voting period, including challenges (2012-05-27 - 2012-06-19) is eligible to vote. 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 will inform those people who might need to renew via email. We recommend that members 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. VOTING ====== The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by 2012-05-27 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. May 2012 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7) 8 9 10 11 12 13 Announcements and list of candidates opens (7th) 14 15 16 17 18 19 (20) List of candidates closed (20th) 21 22 (23) 24 25 26 (27) List of candidates announced (23rd) Instructions to vote are sent (27th) 28 29 30 31 June 2012 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (10) Votes must be returned (10th) 11 (12) 13 14 15 16 17 Preliminary results are announced (12th) 18 (19) 20 21 22 23 24 Challenges to the results closed (19th) 25 26 27 28 29 30 --- More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and the voting process can be found here: https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee http://vote.gnome.org --- Happy Voting, Brian _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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