Re: Next steps for the elections

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Hey there,

I'm not sure if I should be giving advice, especially since I'm a
candidate now but ...

> Sooo: the nominations for the elections are closed and we have enough
> candidates. This is a Good Thing.

Yes, absolutely excellent ;)

> I looked at every nomination. It seems we have 22 candidates. There are
> two invalid nominations (Gegl and Rhett Creighton are not members of the
> GNOME Foundation). And it seems there is a third invalid nomination.
> This one is quite embarrasing: it's Jim Gettys' nomination. It seems he
> has not renewed his membership. Could someone confirm this ?

The only invalid nomination to my mind is Gegl. I don't think there is
any requirement for a non-foundation member not to be able to go for the
board. Membership allows you to vote, it doesn't say that you can't go
for the board...unless I've mis-read somewhere? I think there have been
a couple of people who ran [and got elected] previously. This would
count Jim Gettys in, along with Rhett. I guess I could be biased as I
would like to see Jim on next years board though ;)

> So, what's next ?

Indeed...best to follow the calendar ;)

> I'm preparing the official list of candidates and asking some candidates
> for some informations they didn't give (mostly summaries and
> affiliations). This will be ready really soon (tomorrow evening, if
> everything goes well).

Super.

> One other thing that should be quickly is choosing the questions we'll
> send to the candidates. After some thoughts, I'm not sure we should send
> the 10 same questions that were sent last year because some of the
> candidates already were candidate last year and already answered these
> questions. However, these 10 questions are 10 good questions and it's
> not easy to find questions like those. As for me, I'd like to see a
> question about the membership guidelines. Something like 'What do you
> think of the new membership guidelines?'. Not sure if it is a good idea,
> though.

Yes, I must admit that I was half planning to write the answers to the
questions...and then compare afterwards with my answers that I gave last
year - just to see how things had changed in my mind. I suspect a lot of
people will draw on last years answeres - since, they also seemed to
draw on last years candidacy statement too ;)

I'm not sure if the membership guidelines is suitable...may be a little
bit biased....and especially since the subject is supposed to be
finalized...[shrug]

> A third TODO thing is processing the remaining applications before
> November 25th (when the ballots go out). This should be done quite
> easily.

ROCK

> The last thing to do is preparing the technical stuff for the ballots.
> Who's interested in managing this? I can do it (and I'm okay to do it),
> but if there is someone else who wants to do it, that's not a problem :)

Can't be me, but I'm pretty interested in all of that...Too bad I missed
out on it last time :(

Okay, I'm going to take myself off this list now - I feel that I should
now :)

                Thanks for being so great,
                        You guys are beginning to ROCK!

                                Glynn ;)