GNOME Foundation Elections - Official list of candidates

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2003 elections.

You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the
calendar of the elections below.


Official list of candidates
---------------------------

1. Michael Meeks
2. Glynn Foster
3. Luis Villa
4. Bill Haneman
5. Leslie Proctor (*)
6. Nat Friedman
7. Jody Goldberg
8. Jonathan Blandford
9. Owen Taylor
10. Dave Camp
11. Sri Ramkrishna
12. Malcolm Tredinnick
13. Jeff Waugh

(*) we still don't know Leslie's affiliation: Leslie, please contact us
as soon as possible.

This list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each
candidate's candidacy can be found at:

http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/candidates.html

Telsa will soon send questions she has selected from the FootNotes
article to the candidates to launch a debate on foundation-list. Feel
free to participate to the debate.


Invalid nominations
-------------------

Two invalid nominations have been received:

1. Miguel de Icaza
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-November/msg00036.html
Miguel de Icaza announced his candidacy after the deadline.

2. Bilbo Baggins
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-November/msg00037.html
Bilbo Baggins is not a GNOME Foundation member and announced his
candidacy after the deadline.


Timeline
--------
(all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST)

    November 2003
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
-9(10)11-12-13-14-15-  WE ARE HERE (10th)
                       questions emailed to all candidates (10th)
16 17 18 19 20(21)22   ballots go out (21st)
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30

    December 2003
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4 (5) 6   all ballots must be returned (5th)
 7 (8) 9 10 11 12 13   preliminary election result announced (8th)
14 15 16 17 18(19)20   challenges to election results close (19th)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

In the case of a tie, there's another round of votes starting December
8th and ending December 15th.


Questions
---------

For more information, please look at the elections procedures at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/rules.html. If you have any
questions, feel free to send them to elections gnome org or to
foundation-list gnome org 


The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee
  Eric Baudais
  Andy Tai
  Ghee Teo
  Vincent Untz

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