[Fwd: Re: Request to mailing list foundation-announce rejected]

[Mike Newman <mike gtnorthern demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 17:37, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:16:22AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:27:01AM -0500, foundation-announce-admin gnome org was heard to remark:
> > > Your request to the foundation-announce mailing list
> > > 
> > >     Posting of your message titled "Nominate Leslie Proctor"
> > > 
> > > has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> > > following reason for rejecting your request:
> > > 
> > > "Your message has been deemed inappropriate by the moderator. The
> > > timeline has expired. I already rejected another request. I let you
> > > check with the board and the election comitee on this issue,
> > > 
> > > Daniel"
> > 
> > Uhhm, isn't the deadline this Saturday, November 10th?  The week hasn't
> > ended yet, at least not in my timezone.  (Its not even noon).
> 
>   http://foundation.gnome.org/electionrules.html
> 
>   Candidacies must be announced prior to November 8, 2001, 23:59 UTC.
> 
> i.e nearly 20 hours ago. The end of the period was announced on
> the same list 18 hours ago.
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00031.html
> 
>   My decision to block the foundation announce post was based on 
> very simple and public guidelines. It's completely independant 
> on who was nominated, that's not the issue.
> 
>   I delegated to the groups responsable of the election and to the board
> if you want to raise an objection.

Daniel is correct here. We announced closure of nominations, as per the
published election rules (available at http://foundation.gnome.org)
shortly after the 2001-11-08 23:59 UTC deadline.

If you have serious objections to this, I'd advise you to contact
elections gnome org and/or board gnome org - but since Lesley herself
has not followed-up your nomination, this may not be an issue.

On a personal note I think Lesley would have been an excellent candidate
too. One of the reasons self-nominations are appropriate in these
elections is that this is a volunteer organisation, its hard for us to
presume of other peoples willingness or free-time to perform the board
role (which is not a trivial task as the current board will testify).

Please don't hesitate to follow this up at the above addresses if you
feel there are unresolved issues here.

Mike Newman