This a reminder for everyone willing to run for the Board of Director's elections, the last day for announcing candidacies will be tomorrow 23:59 UTC. Please take a minute to send your candidacy to the relevant mailing lists.
Have an awesome weekend, Andrea 2013/5/6 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> > Dear Foundation Members, > > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to > announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2013. > > The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: > > *GNOME Board Elections 2013* > 2013-05-06: List of candidates opens. > 2013-05-19: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements. > 2013-05-22: Final list of candidates. > 2013-05-26: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins. > 2013-06-09: Voting closes. > 2013-06-11: Preliminary results are announced. > 2013-06-18: 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.organd > elections@gnomeorg 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 2013-05-19, 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 2013-05-22. > > 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-commit...@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 2013-05-22 > 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://live.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. > > You can verify your membership status by visiting > http://foundation.gnome.org/membership 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 > 2013-05-26 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://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee > http://vote.gnome.org > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Sysadmin, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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