Re: Instructions for the Reducing Board Size Referendum

[Henry Jia <Henry Jia Sun COM>]

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GNOME Foundation Elections wrote:

> Dear Henry Jia,
>
> It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Membership & Elections
> Committee is announcing the start of the voting period for the Reducing
> Board Size Referendum. Your vote should be received by Sunday, November
> 6th 2005, 23:59 UTC.
>
> This email contains instructions for voting in this referendum.
>
>
> About the Referendum
> ====================
>
> In September 2005, some Foundation members discussed a possible
> reduction of size of the GNOME Foundation board of directors. The
> discussion took place on foundation-list gnome org  You can read the
> original thread here:
>
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-September/msg00082.html
>
> After much discussion, a petition was made to request a refrendum. More
> than 10% of the Membership signed the petition:
>
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-October/msg00010.html
>
> The proposed question is: "Shall the board size be reduced from its
> current 11 directors to 7 directors?"
>
> Informations about the GNOME Foundation is available at:
>
>  http://foundation.gnome.org/
>
>
> Voting instructions
> ===================
>
> Please read all the instructions before proceeding to the vote.
>
> The vote will occur on a webpage. There are four steps during the vote:
>  - step 1 is authentication
>  - step 2 is where you choose your vote
>  - step 3 lets you confirm your vote
>  - step 4 is a confirmation that your vote has been accepted and gives
>    you the anonymous token that will enable you to verify your vote.
>
> Please note that you will not be able to change your vote, and you will
> not receive a confirmation for your vote by e-mail.
>
> Please keep the anonymous token given to you in step 4 because you will
> not be able to retrieve it later.
>
> At the end of the voting period, anonymized votes will be posted
> publicly for verification. 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  Preliminary results will be announced as soon as
> possible after voting closes (most probably on November 5th). Challenges
> to these preliminary results should be sent prior to November 11th.
>
> In order to vote, please go to:
>
>  http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/
>
> You will need to use these informations to authenticate yourself:
>
> E-mail: henry jia sun com
> Vote token: GHiO0TMGe7
>
>
> Deadline
> ========
>
> Votes will not be accepted after Sunday, November 6th 2005, 23:59 UTC, so
> make sure you vote before this time.
>
>
> The GNOME Foundation Election & Membership Committee
>