Re: Announce of the start of the referendum and website update

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

I'll update it now. 

Also I want to ask something about membership committee members votes.
Should we vote, or can we? From my point of view since membership
committee is responsible for counting votes and stuff we shouldn't but
don't know the policy over this. 

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:51 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Here's the announce that we'll send for the referendum. I'll try to
> update the foundation website tomorrow, but if someone can do it before,
> then it's better :-)
>
> For explanations on how to update the website:
> http://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee_2fElectionsHowTo#head-395a22a58570e6f242309b85227767a78b9d7351
>
> =======
> The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is proud to
> announce the beginning of the Reducing Board Size Referendum. You can
> find some context information about this referendum at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-September/msg00082.html
>
>
> Who can vote?
> -------------
>
> 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
> referendum. For example, a member whose membership ends on October 31th
> 2005 won't be able to vote for the referendum.
>
> 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/application.php before October
> 21th 2005 (23:59 UTC).
>
> If you have applied before this date and if you are accepted, then you
> will be able to vote for this referendum.
>
>
> Timeline
> --------
> (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST)
>
>     October 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 20(21)22   applications/renewals closed (21st)
> 23(24)25 26 27 28 29   ballots are sent (24th)
> 30 31
>
>    November 2005
> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>        1  2  3 (4)(5)  ballots must be returned (4th)
>                        preliminary results announced (5th)
>  6  7  8  9 10(11)12   challenges to the results close (11th)
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
> 27 28 29 30
>
>
> Questions
> ---------
>
> For more information, please look at the referendum procedures at
> http://foundation.gnome.org/referenda/2005-10/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 Committee
> =======
>
>
> Vincent