Reminder - GNOME Foundation elections

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

Hi all,

This is a reminder for the elections for the GNOME Foundation.

If you want to be able to vote or to be a candidate for the elections,
please apply for membership before October 31st, 23:59 UTC. There's only
2 days left to apply before the membership committee closes the
applications for the elections. You can apply using the form at:
http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-form.php

You can look at http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/voters.html
to see people who will be able to vote as of October 30th. Please look
at this list before applying for membership or renewing your membership:
you don't need to apply if you're in the list.

If you want to be a candidate, please announce your candidacy before
November 7th, 23:59 UTC. You may nominate yourself to run for election
by sending an e-mail to foundation-announce gnome org with your name,
e-mail address, corporate affiliation (if any), and a description of why
you'd like to serve. You should also send a summary of your candidacy
announcement (75 words or less) to elections gnome org 


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

     October 2003
 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 21 22 23(24)25   list of candidates opened (24th)
-26-27-28-29-30(31)--   WE ARE HERE
                        applications/renewals closed for elections (31st)

     November 2003
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                    1
  2 (3) 4  5  6 (7) 8   start collecting questions for the candidates
 (3rd)
                        all candidates must be announced (7th), questions
                        to be sent to the candidates are choosed (7th)
  9(10)11 12 13 14 15   announce list of candidates running for election,
                        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 the complete announcement of the elections, please see:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-October/msg00001.html

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

-- 
Les gens heureux ne sont pas presses.
_______________________________________________
gnome-hackers mailing list
gnome-hackers gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-hackers