Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2014

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

I have re-sent my application to the aforementioned lists
(foundation-announce & elections), and it is 'awaiting moderator
approval'.

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> 2014-05-17 17:55 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>:
>
> > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 21:48 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > > CANDIDACY
> > > =========
> > > If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME
> > > Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to
> > > foundation-announce gnome org and elections gnome org
> > [...]
> > > All discussion related to the elections should be held on
> > > foundation-list.
> >
> > Quoted instructions state people announce on foundation-announce.
> > Instructions don't say to CC foundation-list, but to implicitly discuss
> > candidates on foundation-list gnome org  Somehow.
> > Does that mean we cross fingers that people find out how to set
> > "Reply-To" in their mail clients?
>
>
> Understanding what the 'Reply-to' field is for is not required in this case,
> anyone who is willing to ask a question should just create a new email
> making sure the 'To' field is populated with foundation-list gnome org
> accordingly. In the case a question is meant against a specific candidacy
> just removing the current 'To' field from foundation-announce gnome org to
> foundation-list gnome org should be enough. I'll make sure to add the
> 'Reply-to' header myself next time, it slipped out of my head when I sent
> the announcement out.
>
> > Looking at candidacy announcements so far, I see:
> > foundation-announce: Tobi, Oliver, Jeff, Karen, Andrea.
> > foundation-list: Tobi, Oliver, Jeff, Karen, Emily, Sriram, Anish.
>
>
> Although instructions are clear about where candidacies should be sent to
> (that is foundation-announce g o + CC on elections g o, the latter (as per
> my follow-up at [1]) is not
> really needed but won't create any harm. (for the next elections we will
> just require candidacies to be sent to foundation-announce gnome org with
> eventual follow-ups and questions to be sent to foundation-list gnome org)
>
> That said the GNOME Foundation Elections and Membership Committee will make
> sure to "parse" the proposed candidacies on both lists, we do suggest Emily
> and Sriram to send a copy of their candidacy to foundation-announce as well
> as a future reference.
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-May/msg00006.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Sysadmin,
>
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
>
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