Re: Advisory referendum, not decision [Was: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections]

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

Just setting some facts straight.

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> But you bring up a good point - this referendum was advisory only,
> which is a point that I (and perhaps others) overlooked. That leaves
> me with a few questions and only 7-8 days until the election is
> scheduled (if http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/rules.html is
> up-to-date).

Given that jrb announced that the board had asked nominations to be 
pushed bach to this evening (assuming that 24 hours extension meant 24 
hours from the moment where he announced), that pushes everything back 3 
days.

> Candidacies must be announced prior to November 14, 2005 or
> thereabouts (which has already passed). Currently, I count 8 nominees
> (Federico, Christian, Jonathan, Bastien, Vincent, Behdad, Quim,
> David).

I count 12: Jeff, Federico, Behdad, German, Christian, Vincent, Luis, 
Jonathan, Bastien, Anne, Quim, Dave (me)

Note that Quim "officially" nominated Jeff on the 16th, before jrb's 
announcement of the deadline extension. I guess the election committee 
will make that decision, though.

> Will this be 8 nominees to fill 11 seats? Or 12 seats (11 board seats
> + Tim's vacancy)?

The board is 11 people, including Tim. The executive director (the 
title) is not a member of the board. Tim Ney (the individual) is. So 
there is no vacancy on the board.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
bolsh gimp org
Lyon, France