Re: Confirmation for Jim Gettys' candidacy

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  Why isn't Jim listed at 
    http://foundation.gnome.org/ballot-summary.html

 I really think there is no reason to hold his candidacy !

Daniel

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:24:42PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:49:31PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Dear board,
> >
> > It seems Jim tried to reapply for membership two weeks ago, but the
> > membership form was not received for some reason and thus, the
>
>   I assume it's difficult to say who's fault it was.
> Do we send only one mail for expiring membership or a pair in case
> no answer got received ? If not that's something we ought to do
> to be sure at least one "transaction" succeed, or failure get raised.
>
> > membership committee did not renew his membership. For this reason, as
> > of November 1st, Jim was not a member of the GNOME Foundation. So, in
> > theory, he can not run for elections.
>
>   Can one be member of the board and not member of the foundation ? 
> Jim was on the board phone call today, has maintained a fairly regular
> presence status at the board level, so I think he can justify his membership
> quite easilly.
> This clearly wasn't done on purpose I honnestly don't see any reason
> to not allow Jim to recandidate. 
>
> > However, considering the fact that the problem comes from a technical
> > problem and considering that Jim reapplied for membership today (and was
> > approved), the committee would like to accept Jim's candidacy.
>
>   Of course ! 
>   That's my personal opinion but I hardly see how one could have a different
> one at the board level.
>
> Daniel
>
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