Re: Foundation Elections - Announcement Proposal (Timeline, etc.)

[Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue gnome org>]

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Salue,

On 03.05.2010 17:16, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > ELECTIONS =========
> >
> > The seven members of our current Board of Directors are ruling
> > GNOME for 12 month now (well, not all of them ;-) ). We, the
> > GNOME Foundation
>
> I don't mind the joke, but I guess some people might misunderstand
> it, so be ready to clarify if you keep it :-)
Uh, that was not really meant to be a joke, but to be more correct ;-)
I'll leave it out.

> > ELECTORATE ==========
> >
> > Every GNOME foundation member whose membership is valid in the
> > range of the full voting period, including challenges (2010-05-30
> > - 2010-06-22) is eligible to vote. If you are not a member yet,
> > please consider to apply until 2010-05-14.
>
> What if I have to renew at the beginning of June? :-) Will I
> receive a mail before 2010-05-14?
Good catch. We'll email the members in time.

> > VOTING ====== The 7 candidates voted for most as counted by a
> > single transferable vote system will be elected, except that no
> > more than two individuals affiliated with any one corporation may
> > be elected.
>
> Just to double-check: when you say "single transferable vote",
> there's no ambiguity and everybody will understand that this is the
> same method as was used last year (for the real result ;-))?
hrhr.  Interesting point. Thanks for bringing it up. In fact, we will
use Scottish STV which is not the very same as last year. Simply
because the old OpenSTV-1.4 does not work with a recent PyGTK and the
newer one (1.6) does not offer "Single Transferable Vote" anymore. But
Scottish STV is the simplest scheme AFAICS so in case the OpenSTV
doesn't want
to work properly, we still could count manually.

Thanks for the comments.

Cheers,
  Tobi
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