On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 07:32 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:12 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote:Here's the draft candidacy list --------------- The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for the 2005 elections. You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the calendar of the elections below. Official list of candidates --------------------------- 1. Jonathan Blandford 2. Behdad Esfahbod 3. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 4. Quim Gil 5. Dominic Lachowicz 6. Federico Mena-Quintero 7. David Neary 8. Bastien Nocera 9. GermÃn Poà CaamaÃo 10. Vincent Untz 11. Luis Villa 12. Jeff Waugh 13. Anne ÃstergaardAre these intended to be in any particular order? If in alphabetical by last name, I'd place Anne between Bastien and German, and Christian should be sorted by Schaller, nor Fredrik, putting him between German and Vincent.This list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each candidate's candidacy can be found at: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/candidates.html Baris will soon send questions to the candidates to launch a debate on foundation-list. Feel free to participate to the debate. Invalid nominations ------------------- There's no invalid nominations for this election. Timeline -------- (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST) November 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14(15)16 17(18)19 list of candidates closed (15th) 20(21)22 23 24(25)26 questions are sent to candidates (21st)(We're here) list of candidates announced (21th) 27 28 29 30 ballots are sent (25th)Original schedule had the list of candidates sent on the 16th, and hopefully the questions sent on that day or the next. This should have kicked off the discussions. Discussions on the list have been non-existent so far. We are sending out the list of candidates 5 days late. I'd like to at least have the option to extend the discussion period.
Indeed that's true. But we're still have time for candidates to discuss and this has not been changed. I don't know announcing the candidates before has something to do with that.
For me personally, I either vote the first day the ballots are sent, or I forget, and don't vote at all. The only way extended discussions are useful to me is if we push back all the dates from the ballot sending onward by however much.
I second that. But as I said we do not change the discussion time. If we will change the schedule we should do that as soon possible and announce candidates with this schedule.
I could still be convinced that changing the dates is a bad idea, though.
Is there any other comment about this? Other committee members agree with us on keeping current schedule?
December 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8(9)(10) ballots must be returned (9th) preliminary results announced (10th) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22(23)24 challenges to the results close (23rd) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 In the case of a tie, another round of votes will happen after the preliminary results are announced. Questions --------- For more information, please look at the elections procedures at http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/rules.html. If you have any questions, feel free to send them to elections gnome org or to foundation-list gnome org The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee _______________________________________________ membership-committee mailing list membership-committee gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/membership-committee_______________________________________________ membership-committee mailing list membership-committee gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/membership-committee
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