The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2022.
The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following:
*GNOME Board Elections 2022*
2022-05-31: Announcements and list of candidates opens.
2022-06-06: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements.
2022-06-07: Final list of candidates.
2022-06-07: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.
2022-06-21: Voting closes.
2022-06-21: Preliminary results are announced.
2022-06-28: Last day to challenge preliminary results.
ELECTIONS
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Four (4) of 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.
Why are elections going to renew four (4) out of seven seats this year? Please read below under the VOTING session.
The seats that will be up for election during this run are:
- Regina Nkemchor Adejo
- Robert McQueen
- Felipe Borges
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
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 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 2022-06-06, 23:59 UTC.
Members are invited to ask questions to one or all candidates via Discourse at:
https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336These 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.
A list of candidates will be announced on 2022-06-07.
ELECTORATE
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Every GNOME Foundation member whose membership is valid as of
2022-06-07 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
as soon as possible at:
https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/applyLate 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 email and on the foundation-list mailing list. 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. With the introduction of
https://account.gnome.org verifying this information is now possible by just logging in with your GNOME Account. Your password can be reset via:
https://password.gnome.orgA new password will be e-mailed directly to the registered e-mail for your account.
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.
VOTING
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The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by
2022-06-07 via email.
This specific election run will elect only four (4) directors (instead of the former 7), as a result of the amendments that were recently 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 here:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-July/msg00007.htmlThe candidates voted for most as counted by a single transferable vote system 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 GNOME Foundation charter at:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CharterIn 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
Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
