Re: Sending the ballots

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Hi Vincent,

   I have taken below and the 2000 template and updated for this year 
ballot template.
Have a look see what you think?
   Please verify all the url links also.

-Ghee

Vincent Untz wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've been quite busy lately, so I could not write the elections doc as I
> wanted to do. I'm really sorry. And we have to send the ballots today.
>
> I'll update the voters list on foundation.gnome.org soon. After that,
> I'll tweak a bit the voting scripts. Then close the vote gnome org
> archives and send the ballots. And finally announce that the ballots
> were sent.
>
> I can do all of this, but I'll be happy to get some help :-)
> I'll be on IRC in #gnome-hackers so just ping me there if you have some
> time (I might be away for lunch, though).
>
> Btw, you can review the ballot template at
> http://vuntz.net/tmp/ballot.txt
>
> Thanks
>
> Vincent
>
>  

Dear <GNOME Foundation Member>,

        It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Membership Committee is
announcing the starting of the 2003 GNOME Foundation Election voting period
and the casting of the vote should be received by Friday, December 5th 2003, 
23:59 UTC.

This is your ballot for voting in the elections for the GNOME
Foundation Board of Directors.

As a reminder, more information about the candidates can be found at
this URL:

  http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2003/candidates.html

Information about the GNOME Foundation is here:

  http://foundation.gnome.org

Also, general discussion of the candidates can be found in the November
(and possibly December) archives for foundation-list at:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list

Please take the time to learn about the candidates and their expected
tasks and aspirations as members of the GNOME Foundation Board.

You may vote for up to 11 different candidates. The 11 candidates with
the most total votes will become the new board, subject to a maximum
of four board members with the same company affiliation. 

At the end of the voting period, all votes will be posted publicly
for verification; this is NOT a secret ballot. At that time, please
verify that your vote was received and counted and alert
elections gnome org if it was not.

Concerns or questions about the voting process should be sent to
elections gnome org  Results will be announced as soon as possible
after voting closes.

To vote, send an email to vote gnome org (you can just reply to this
mail). The first three lines in the email should be the following three
personalized authentication lines, unmodified:

Member: Julian
Member Address: julian linuxpower org
Validation Token: e920055167f81e09ed6313950a5f6b04

These three lines allow us to verify that you are a foundation member
and that your email came from you.

The remainder of your email should name up to 11 candidates you wish
to vote for. The order of the names is not relevant. Please include
both the name and ID number of each candidate exactly as they appear
below, one candidate per line. Try not to include any text in your
email other than the three authentication lines followed by the
candidates you're voting for.

Invalid Vote
============
Your ballot will be considered invalid if one of these conditions
have been violated:
* there is no member e-mail address
* the member e-mail address is not the e-mail address this ballot was
sent to
* there is no validation token
* the validation token is not valid
* there are too many candidates chosen (more than 11)
* there is no candidate chosen
* there is a duplicate vote for a candidate

Again, your authentication lines are:

> > DO NOT DELETE THIS <<
Member: Julian
Member Address: julian linuxpower org
Validation Token: e920055167f81e09ed6313950a5f6b04
> > DO NOT DELETE THIS <<

The candidates are: 

 MICHAEL MEEKS (ID# 1)
 GLYNN FOSTER (ID# 2)
 LUIS VILLA (ID# 3)
 BILL HANEMAN (ID# 4)
 LESLIE PROCTOR (ID# 5)
 NAT FRIEDMAN (ID# 6)
 JODY GOLDBERG (ID# 7)
 JONATHAN BLANDFORD (ID# 8)
 OWEN TAYLOR (ID# 9)
 DAVE CAMP (ID# 10)
 SRI RAMKRISHNA (ID# 11)
 MALCOLM TREDINNICK (ID# 12)
 JEFF WAUGH (ID# 13)
 
Deadline
========

Votes will not be accepted after Friday, December 5th 2003, 23:59 UTC, so 
make sure you vote before this time.


The GNOME Foundation Election & Membership Committee
 
  Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>
  Andy Tai <atai atai org>
  Ghee Teo <ghee teo sun com>
  Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>