Re: Board size referendum

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 Ã 18:29 +0200, Dave Neary a Ãcrit :
> Hi,
>
> Just so we don't forget about this - at GUADEC, there was a discussion 
> on having a referendum to reduce the size of the board from 11 to 7. It 
> was decided that we should have that referendum.
>
> At the time, it kind of got mixed up in the anonymous voting this. I 
> don't know if we will have anonymous voting before Christmas, but if 
> it's possible, I think that we should have this referendum in October.
>
> Why so soon? Because afterwards we'll be having board elections, and it 
> would be nice if the results of the referendum were known before the 
> elections are held.

I've started writing some code for the anonymous voting thing. At last.
People will vote through a web page. I should find enough time to have
it ready before October, but it will probably needs some review...

Could someone in the committee come with a timeline for such a
referendum? It's not that hard and it's a good occasion to start
organizing votes :-) You can find a howto here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-foundation/doc/howto-elections.txt
(this should really be moved to the wiki...)

See also the announce of the previous referendum:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2004-September/msg00001.html

Vincent

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