Anonymous Voting - my action item..

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey there,

So I wrote up something, but it's not great, and kinda unsure how best
to phrase things.

Comments?

Glynn

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Back in September 2003, the board discussed a possible move towards an anonymous
voting scheme for the annual GNOME Foundation board of directors elections and
brought it to the members on foundation-list gnome org  You can read this thread
here -
                                                                                                              
                                               
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-September/msg00008.html
                                                                                                              
                                               
After much discussion, it was agreed that there was significant objection to this
so that we should hold a referendum to decide whether future elections should use
an anonymous voting mechanism.
                                                                                                              
                                               
Anonymous voting will allow members to vote for the board of directors in privacy.
While the breakdown of results will be open, the individual who voted for a given
list of people will not be named. Having had the experience of sitting on the
board for the past 2 years, it's crucial to have the right people for the right
job and quite often that choice is hard to make. Many people have felt pressured
to vote for colleagues or friends and not because they made a suitable GNOME
Foundation member.
                                                                                                              
                                               
When the vote happens on XXX, the current board recommends the GNOME Foundation
members to vote to introduce anonymous voting. The current membership committee
are in the process of definining the anonymous voting mechanism, and require the
help of a few python developers. If you would like to help out, please email
membership-committee gnome org