Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections: Candidacies timelines

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

CC'ing GermÃn, he's also running.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> The following things didn't work as expected:
>
> 1. Diego Escalante Urrelo's candidacy got sent *after* the timeline. We give
> 8 days to candidates to send out their summary mails and seeing someone
> sending a mail after the timeline is not something we would like to
> see happening.
> He's late by two minutes, but a rule is a rule, two minutes or 10
> hours is pretty much
> the same. This item has been added in our Agenda for the next meeting
> and we'll discuss
> how mandatory timelines should be considered for next year's
> elections. That said, Diego's
> candidacy is valid for this election, but we gonna have a discussion
> within the committee
> to make this requirement mandatory. (if any of you is not in favour of
> this decision, please let us
> know as soon as possible, since tomorrow we will be announcing all the
> candidates)

I got distracted while re-re-re-editing the mail, sorry about that.

A reminder email wouldn't be bad at all in future elections. Maybe on
Friday as proposals usually end on Sunday.

Trivia: 00 UTC is still quite "early" on this side of the globe. Ryan,
GermÃn and myself were still on post-afternoon Sunday; if we /were/ in
Europe we would have had the mail sent around 7pm :-).

> 2. There was a mess between several candidates sending their summary
> mails on -list and elections@,
> some others to -announce and -list but not on elections@ and
> vice-versa. (we actually have 10 candidacies
> on our RT at this time, while we see 13 candidates running)
> Our announcement mail [1] reports all the requirements about where the
> summary mail should be sent:
> it should get sent to -announce and elections@ *only* then voters can
> forward it to -list if they do have
> any question for the candidate.
>
> That said, I would like to wish good luck to all the candidates for a
> great election,
>
> Have a great day,
>
> Andrea,
> on behalf of the GNOME Membership & Elections Committee
>
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-May/msg00000.html
>
> P.S please keep everyone CC'ed while answering.