As a member of membership committee I can honestly say that Vincent's instant leaving membership committee would end up problems with elections as well. That must be the real reason that kept him in committee still. Even though we have experienced some as members in past, other members of membership commitee apart from Vincent are all new commitee members (as far as I know), and we haven't accomplished any election before. Moreover, there's a new system that elections will be running with new Foundation Membership management system using modern databases instead of old text based storage. I also want to mention that we owe these to Vincent's coordinating stuff and invaluable work on this system. Since this system is new and some parts of it unfinished, it seems like Vincent choosed to stay on committee even though he declared his candidacy. My previous talks with Vincent is that he will be able to pass management to committee as system is completely finished and managable with web interface instead of mysql clients before elections start. I just wanted to clearify this issue incase there're some who are not aware of Vincent's status about being committee member and a candidacy. I totally understand concerns about this, and I'm not a lawyer of Vincent Untz, but I just wanted to drop in to the issue and give some information about it as a member of membership committee. Maybe I'm not objective enough as I really think Vincent will be successful in Board as well. Being someone worked with Vincent on membership commitee and I personally trust him, but I'm pretty sure he'll leave committee as soon as he complete the work on new membership system. I have not information if there's something against this situation in bylaws of foundation, but I hope there's nothing against it. On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:12 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:28 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > On Wed, November 16, 2005 10:33, Quim Gil wrote: > > > > > >> If the announce was not clear or if the informations can not be easily > > >> found, please send a mail to the committee so it can be improved next > > >> year. > > > > > > An improvement would be to include some comments on the "campaign". I > > > don't know if it should be about rules or netiquette. For instance: > > > > > > - Recommendation to send a brief email announcing the will to present > > > candidacy. > > > > Isn't sending the nomination mail better? :-) But I understand what you > > mean (announcing the will is easy & fast to do). > > > > > - Allowed use of lists and etc to introduce and promote candidacies. > > > > Well, foundation-list is here for that. I'm not sure this would be > > appropriate on other lists. > > > > <quote page="http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/rules.html";> > > All discussion related to the elections should be held on > > foundation-list gnome org Members are invited to ask questions to > > one or all candidates on that list. > > </quote> > > > > > - Access to planet.gnome.org (at least during the eection period) to > > > those candidates with blog. > > > > They already have access: since they're candidates, they're Foundation > > members and so they can be on the planet. Sending a mail to Jeff is > > enough. People might now know it, though. > > > > > - Cool and uncool (?) ways to introduce and promote your candidacy. > > > > Not sure what you mean here :-) > > > > > This would help disoriented new candidates (like myself) moving > > > appropriately between silence and abuse or offtopic. > > > > So, it seems you're looking for a "candidate howto" :-) > > This sounds like a good idea. I'm adding an item to the committee todo > > list. > > Vincent you have been doing a wonderful and very large job on the > election committee. > > I thank you sincerely for this fine work that you and the rest of the > committee has done. > > We need to trust you guys 100%. > > But I would like to say this sooner and not later that I think that you > as a candidate yourself should not at the same time be sitting on the > election committee- for your own sake as a serious and very skilled > candidate to a seat on the board. > > Regards > > Anne
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