Dear Foundation Members,
The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to
announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring
2014.
The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following:
*GNOME Board Elections 2014*
2014-05-06: List of candidates opens.
2014-05-18: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements.
2014-05-21: Final list of candidates.
2014-05-25: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.
2014-06-08: Voting closes.
2014-06-10: Preliminary results are announced.
2014-06-17: Last day to challenge preliminary results.
ELECTIONS
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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
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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 2014-05-18, 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 2014-05-21.
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
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Every GNOME Foundation member whose membership is valid as of
2014-05-21 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.
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
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The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by
2014-05-25 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.
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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
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Cheers,
Andrea
Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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