Re: Getting started with Foundation Elections?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Lalala, ping :-)

Vincent

Le mardi 06 avril 2010, à 11:08 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Hey there,
>
> I know you've started looking at the elections system since it was
> mentioned in the minutes. That's great! There are also a few things you
> can do in parallel: work on a timeline for the elections, and announce
> them, for example.
>
> As a reference, here are links for the announcements of previous
> elections:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2009-May/msg00000.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2007-November/msg00000.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00000.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00000.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2004-October/msg00004.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-October/msg00001.html
>
> To give some time to the community to apply for membership and to make
> sure the new elections will be over at the end of June, I suggest to
> send an announcement at the end of this month or at the beginning of
> May. As an example, a few things that we might want to avoid looking at
> the timeline for last year:
>
>  + have more time between the announcement and the opening of the list
>    of candidates, to let people think about the idea of running
>
>  + membership renewals should close before the list of candidates is
>    announced (since you need to be a member to be a candidate)
>
>  + maybe close votes on a week-end instead of middle of the week (not
>    sure; it might help in some way)
>
>  + have more time at the end of June to deal with challenges
>
> Note that those are all suggestions -- it's up to you in the end :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
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