Final List of Candidates Running for the 2009 Elections

[Susana Pereira <susana pereira gmail com>]

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2009 elections. 

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


Official list of candidates
---------------------------
Behdad Esfahbod
Brian Cameron
Diego Escalante Urrelo
GermÃn PÃo-CaamaÃo
Hubert Figuiere
Jorge Castro
Lucas Rocha
Og Maciel
Srinivasa Ragavan
Vincent Untz


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/2009/candidates.html

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


Timeline
--------

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

     May 2009
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                 1  2
  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   
 10 11 12 13 14(15)16   Announcement and list of candidates open (15th)
 17 18 19 20 21(22)23   applications closed (22th) 
                        start collecting questions (22th)
 24(25)26(27)28 29 30   list of candidates closed, questions to be sent 
                        to the candidates chosen (25th) 
 31                     questions emailed to all candidates (27th) 

    June 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
   (1) 2 (3) 4  5  6    membership renewals closed (1st)
                        instructions to vote are sent (3rd)
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16(17)18(19)20    votes must be returned (17th)
                        preliminary results announced (19th)
21 22 23 24 25(26)27    challenges to the results closed (26th)
28 29 30

    July 2009       
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1  2 (3) 4    Board meeting at GUADEC with the new and
                        old boards (3rd)
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31    

In case of a tie, there's another round of votes starting on June 19th
and ending on June 26th.

There will also be a Board meeting on July 3rd, at GUADEC, with the
members of the old and new boards.


Questions 
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For more information, please look at the elections procedures at
http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/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