Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Sep 28

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

I'm terribly sorry for this late mail. Here's draft. I started dates
from 28th of Friday, which makes more sense because people will have
time at weekend. Anyways here's the first draft. It lacks information
about Anonymouse Voting and way people should vote, I hope Vincent can
take care of that:
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The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is proud to
announce the beginning of the 2005 elections for the Foundation's Board
of Directors. A description of the role of the Board can be found at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/overview.html.



Who can vote?
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To be able to vote, you need to be a member of the GNOME Foundation and
your membership needs to be valid at least until the end of the
elections. For example, a member whose membership ends on December 7th
2005 won't be able to vote for the elections.

If you're not a member of the GNOME Foundation or if you need to renew
your membership, you have to apply at
http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-form.php before November 4th 2005
(23:59 UTC). If you have applied before this date and if you are
accepted, then you will be able to vote for these elections.

Note that it is possible that the processing of your application takes
some time and that your application may be accepted only in November.
This won't prevent you to vote: you will be able to vote if you have
applied before the deadline and if your membership is accepted.

You can look at http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/voters.html
to see people who will be able to vote as of November 2nd. This list
will be updated on November 4th, once we'll know the full list of
voters. If you think you are able to vote, we encourage you to verify
that you are in this list and that your e-mail address is correct.
Please report any problems to elections gnome.org.

Being a candidate
-----------------

If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested in
running for election, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-mail to
foundation-announce gnome.org with your name, e-mail address, corporate
affiliation (if any), and a description of why you'd like to serve
before November 11th 2005 (23:59 UTC).

You should also send a summary of your candidacy announcement (75 words
or less) to elections gnome.org. If you are not yet a GNOME Foundation
member and would like to stand for election, you must first apply for
membership and be accepted to be eligible to run. (You may, however,
announce your candidacy prior to formal acceptance of your application;
should your application not be accepted, you will not be included on the
ballot.)

Anonymous voting
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We have completed technical solutions for anonymous voting for 2005
elections. (Way of voting etc. should be described in here)


Timeline
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Note that the timeline is available in webcal format at:
webcal://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/timeline.ics

(all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST)

    October 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1  2  3  1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22   
23 24 25 26 37(28)29   list of candidates opened (28th)
30 31

    November 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1  2  3 (4) 5   applications/renewals closed for elections (4th)
 6 (7) 8  9 10(11)12   start collecting questions for the
candidates(7th)
13(14)15 16 17 18 19   all candidates must be announced (11th),
questions
20 21 22 23 24(25)26   to be sent to the candidates are choosed (11th)
27 28 29 30            announce list of candidates running for election,
                       questions emailed to all candidates (14th)
                       ballots go out (25th)


    December 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
             1  2  3   
 4  5  6  7  8 (9)10   all ballots must be returned (9th)
11(12)13 14 15 16 17   preliminary election result announced (12th)
18 19 20 21 22(23)24   challenges to election results close (23th)
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

In the case of a tie, there's another round of votes starting December
19th and ending December 29th.

Questions
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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
   BarÄÅ ÃiÃek <baris teamforce.name.tr>
   Albert Mora <jarashi telefonica.net>
   Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan randomink.org>
   Eddy Mulyono <eddymulyono mail.com>
   Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz.net>





On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 20:12 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 Ã 19:03 +0300, Baris Cicek a Ãcrit :
> > I can prepare such a draft for timeline. But on which date candidates
> > will start to show up? In other words on which date should I base the
> > start of calender?
>
> Baris, any news on this? Or did I miss a mail? :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent