Final List of Candidates Running for the 2007 Elections

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to 
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2007 elections. 

You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the
calendar of the elections below.


Official list of candidates
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Brian Cameron
Behdad Esfahbod
George Kraft
Og Maciel
John (J5) Palmieri
Lucas Rocha
Vincent Untz
Diego Escalante Urrelo
Luis Villa
Jeff Waugh

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/2007/candidates.html

Questions to the candidates to launch a debate on foundation-list will 
be sent soon. Feel free to participate to the debate.


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

    November 2007
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
              1  2  3 
 (4) 5  6  7 (8) 9 10   list of candidates open (4th)
                        applications/renewals closed (8th)
 11 12 13 14 15(16)17   list of candidates closed (16th)
(18)19 20 21 22 23 24   list of candidates announced (18th)
(25)26 27 28 29 30      instructions to vote are sent (25th)

    December 2007
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                    1
  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
 (9)10(11)12 13 14 15   votes must be returned (9th)
                        preliminary results announced (11th)
 16 17 18 19 20 21 22   
(23)24 25 26 27 28 29   challenges to the results closed (23rd)
 30 31       

In the case of a tie, another round of votes will happen after the
preliminary results are announced.

Questions 
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For more information, please look at the elections procedures at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/rules.html. If you have any
questions, feel free to send them to elections gnome org or to
foundation-list gnome org 

GNOME Foundation Membership Committee