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[foundation-web] Land 2022 material for Board elections

commit cea45da9c6d9ec768df8bc45754dfb0ab5b137ef
Author: Andrea Veri <averi redhat com>
Date:   Mon May 2 12:15:55 2022 +0200

    Land 2022 material for Board elections

 foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/Makefile.am  |  12 +++
 foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/index.wml    |  41 ++++++++
 foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/rules.wml    | 146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/timeline.ics |  83 ++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 282 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/Makefile.am b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/Makefile.am
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf94b04
--- /dev/null
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+SUBDIRS =
+
+urlpath = /vote/2022
+ 
+page_SCRIPTS = \
+       index.html \
+       rules.html
+
+page_DATA = \
+       timeline.ics
+
+include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common
diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/index.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/index.wml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
+<html>
+
+  <head>
+    <title>GNOME Foundation 2022 Elections</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+    <meta name="author" content="Andrea Veri" />
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+
+    <div id="content">
+    <h1>GNOME Foundation 2022 Elections</h1>
+
+    <p>
+      The GNOME Foundation Membership currently elects the Board of 
+      Directors each year for July, 1st. Any member can nominate 
+      themself to run in the elections. The overall elections process 
+      is overseen by the Membership and Elections Committee, which can 
+      be reached at <a
+      href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues";>on GitLab</a>.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      The elections results from the 2022 Board of Directors elections 
+      will be archived here for public access.
+    </p>
+
+    <h2>2022 Elections Materials:</h2>
+    <ul>
+        <li>
+            <a href="rules.html">Elections Rules and Timeline</a> (webcal <a
+            href="webcal://vote.gnome.org/2022/timeline.ics">timeline</a>)
+        </li>
+        <li>
+            <a href="../overview.html">Overview of the Board of Directors role</a>
+        </li>
+    </ul>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/rules.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/rules.wml
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index 0000000..4a3e4ac
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
+<html>
+
+  <head>
+    <title>GNOME Foundation 2022 Elections Rules</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+
+    <div id="content">
+    <h1>Rules &amp; Timeline for the GNOME Foundation 2022 Elections</h1>
+
+    <h2>Elections Rules</h2> 
+    <ol>
+      <li>
+        See the <a 
href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/foundation-web/blob/master/foundation.gnome.org/about/bylaws.rst";>GNOME
 Foundation Bylaws</a> (<a href="https://www.gnome.org/foundation/governance/attachment/bylaws-2/";>PDF</a>) 
for
+        general rules.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       There are 3 board slots that are to be filled during these elections.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Members of the GNOME Foundation as of
+        <!-- CANDIDATES_ANNOUNCED_DATE -->2022-06-07
+        
+        are eligible to vote in the elections. Members without voting rights
+        such as <a 
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2012-May/msg00015.html";>Emeritus members</a>
+        are not eligible to vote.
+        Anyone who has made a 
+        contribution to GNOME can apply for membership by completing the
+        <a href="https://foundation.gnome.org/membership/apply/";>application</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Any eligible voter is eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors.
+        To announce your candidacy, send a message to
+        <a 
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/";>foundation-announce&#64;gnome&#46;org</a>
+        with your full name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and a
+        description of your reasons for wanting to serve as a director.
+        Candidacies must be announced prior to
+        <!-- CANDIDATES_CLOSED_DATE -->2022-06-06, 23:59 UTC.
+        
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        All discussion related to the elections should be held on
+        <a href="https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336";>Discourse</a>.
+        Members are invited to ask questions to one or all candidates on that
+        list.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+       Instructions explaining how to vote will be sent via e-mail to all
+       eligible voters on
+       <!-- VOTING_OPENED_DATE -->2022-06-07,
+       
+       and votes must be returned by
+       <!-- VOTING_CLOSED_DATE -->2022-06-21, 23:59 UTC.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Votes will be held confidential during the elections, but an 
+        anonymized archive of all submitted votes will be made publicly 
+        accessible at its conclusion.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee is
+        responsible for counting the votes.
+        The committee serves at the pleasure of the GNOME Board of Directors
+        as per Section 9.1 of the bylaws.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        This specific election run is the first one occurring after the following
+        amendments were introduced to the Foundation's Bylaws. The aforementioned changes
+        introduced the ability to only renew a subset of the available seats of the Board.
+        The rationale of the changes and the historical information about these specific 
+        amendments can be found <a 
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-July/msg00007.html";>here</a>. 
+
+       The candidates voted for most as counted by a <a 
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-March/msg00012.html";>single transferable
+           vote system</a> will be elected, except that no more than two individuals affiliated
+        with any one corporation may be sitting on the Board as Directors during the same term. This
+        holds true even in the case a subset of seats is up for renewal: as an example if X is
+        affiliated with the Example Inc. and his/her seat is not up for renewal, the amount
+        of possible candidates affiliated with Example Inc. that may be elected would be 1 (one). On 
+        top of that and as taken from the Foundation's Bylaws: "8.2.4: In the event that any election
+        of directors results in a single entity representing greater than 40% of the Board, than the nominee
+        representing that entity receiving the least number of votes, shall be replaced by the nominee 
receiving
+        the greatest number of votes who was not elected to the Board." 
+
+        For a full definition of corporate affiliation, see the <a 
href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter";>GNOME Foundation charter</a>.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        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. 
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        The Elections Committee will announce preliminary results as soon as
+        possible after the elections close, along with instructions on how to
+        access the votes archive and how to independently verify the vote
+        count.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Any eligible voter may challenge the preliminary results by creating a
+        href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues";>GitLab issue</a>.
+        prior to
+        <!-- PRELIMINARY_RESULTS_DATE -->2022-06-28.
+        
+        The decision of the Elections Committee as
+        to any challenge shall be final. Once any challenges have been
+        resolved, the Elections Committee shall announce the final results.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Any questions regarding these procedures should be directed to the
+        Elections Committee by creating a <a
+        href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues";>GitLab issue</a>.
+        The committee shall have the power to make any necessary changes or
+        clarifications to these rules at any point during the elections.
+      </li>
+    </ol>
+
+    <h2>Timeline</h2>
+    <p><small>(all deadlines are 23:59 UTC)</small></p> 
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        <!-- CANDIDATES_OPENED_DATE -->2022-05-23: Announcements and list of candidates opens.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- CANDIDATES_CLOSED_DATE -->2022-06-06: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary 
statements.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- CANDIDATES_ANNOUNCED_DATE -->2022-06-07: Final list of candidates.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- VOTING_OPENED_DATE -->2022-06-07: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- VOTING_CLOSED_DATE -->2022-06-21: Voting closes.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- PRELIMINARY_RESULTS_DATE -->2022-06-21: Preliminary results are announced.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <!-- CHALLENGE_CLOSED_DATE -->2022-06-28: Last day to challenge preliminary results.
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/timeline.ics b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/timeline.ics
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34bce1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2022/timeline.ics
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+BEGIN:VCALENDAR
+VERSION:2.0
+CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
+METHOD:PUBLISH
+PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
+X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 88978@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220523
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220524
+DESCRIPTION:If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested 
+ in running for election\, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-mail t
+ o foundation-announce gnome org with your name\, e-mail address\, corporat
+ e affiliation (if any)\, and a description of why you'd like to serve\, be
+ fore 2022-06-06 (23:59 UTC).\n     If you are not yet a GNOME Foundation m
+ ember and would like to stand for election\, you must first apply for memb
+ ership and be accepted to be eligible to run. (You may\, however\, announc
+ e your candidacy prior to formal acceptance of your application\; should y
+ our application not be accepted\, you will not be included in the list of 
+ candidates.)\n    
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:Announcements and list of candidates opens
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 71229@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220606
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220607
+DESCRIPTION:If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested 
+ in running for election\, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-mail t
+ o foundation-announce gnome org with your name\, e-mail address\, corporat
+ e affiliation (if any)\, and a description of why you'd like to serve\, be
+ fore 2022-06-06 (23:59 UTC).\n     If you are not yet a GNOME Foundation m
+ ember and would like to stand for election\, you must first apply for memb
+ ership and be accepted to be eligible to run. (You may\, however\, announc
+ e your candidacy prior to formal acceptance of your application\; should y
+ our application not be accepted\, you will not be included in the list of 
+ candidates.)\n    
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:List of candidates closed
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 39410@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220607
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220608
+DESCRIPTION:You may now start to send your questions to the candidates
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:List of candidates announced
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 82647@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220607
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220608
+DESCRIPTION:Please read your email and follow these instructions and submit
+  your vote by 2022-06-21
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:Instructions to vote are sent
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 74770@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220621
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220622
+DESCRIPTION:Preliminary results are announced on 2022-06-21
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:Votes must be returned
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 11259@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220621
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220622
+DESCRIPTION:The preliminary results can be challenged until 2022-06-28
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:Preliminary results are announced
+END:VEVENT
+BEGIN:VEVENT
+UID:20220502T101502Z - 81058@async
+DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220628
+DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220629
+DESCRIPTION:If there weren't any challenges\, preliminary results are valid
+DTSTAMP:20220502T101502Z
+SUMMARY:Challenges to the results closed
+END:VEVENT
+END:VCALENDAR
+
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