Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2017

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

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 <av 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 accounts 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