No anonymous voting for this year's GNOME Foundation elections

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Hi all,

When the elections were announced, it was not clear whether the
membership committee would be able to build an infrastructure for
anonymous voting in time or not.

It seems really unlikely that such an infrastructure will be ready and
well-tested in time. For this reason, votes for this year's elections
will not be anonymous. They will be held confidential during the voting
period, but publicly available once the voting closes.

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


    November 2004
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4  5  6
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18(19)20  ballots sent to voters (19th)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30

    December 2004
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1  2 (3) 4  ballots must be returned (3rd)
 5 (6) 7  8  9 10 11  preliminary election result announced (6th)
12 13 14 15 16(17)18  challenges to election results close (17th)
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31

Questions
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For more information, please look at the elections procedures at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2004/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
  Gael Chamoulaud
  Sayamindu Dasgupta
  Gregory Leblanc
  Vincent Untz