Re: Preliminary Results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2016

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

The matter was discussed at yesterday's Board of Directors meeting and
an announcement to the membership about the inconsistency will follow
later today.

Thanks for your report,

2016-06-12 15:06 GMT+02:00 Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de>:
> Hi.
>
> On Fr, 2016-06-10 at 21:05 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > Which of the rules mentioned at [1] were not respected in your
> > opinion?
> That's the wrong question to ask, because you are references an
> irrelevant address.
>
> The bylaws require the elections to be carried out adhering to the
> rules laid out on http://foundation.gnome.org/electionrules.html.
>
> The election, however, was not carried out according to those rules.
> It has been, however, carried out according to other rules not listed
> on mentioned address.
>
> If it had been carried out according to the rules mentioned, then
> people were denied voting although they were eligible according to §3.
> These people could demand to cast their vote.  And I couldn't explain
> why they shouldn't be granted their right if I was asked. So that's why
> I said that I think we'd better have a "(not overly creative)
> explanation of how to fit the execution of the election to the bylaws."
>
> Also, I'd rather point the redirection to 2017 now rather than trying
> to give the impression that it pointed to 2016, so that next year is
> safe.
>
> Cheers,
>   Tobi



-- 
Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

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