Re: Some notes on this years election

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

The membership had 12 days to send in their candidacies which is
plenty of time to make an informed decision. If you double check the
timeline for this elections at [1] you'll see it's clear why the
timeline was only extended by one day and that's mainly because the
26th of May was scheduled as the first day votes could be accepted.
While announcing the list of candidates can slip to the next day the
effective starting of the elections cannot. That said, running and
being on the Board requires you to commit a lot of time and energy for
an entire year which presuppose you being *strongly* convinced on
proposing your candidacy so it's definitely not a day or two that
would have changed someone's mind to run.

cheers,

[1] https://vote.gnome.org/2017/rules.html

2017-05-29 12:01 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net>:
> Hey,
>
> just had a few notes on this years election:
>  * The extension seemed weird to me. It was extended by only a day
>    (giving people less than 15 hours after the announcement, factor in
>    work/sleep time and people are quite likely to not be able to act on
>    it before it is too late!). This feels like mostly allowing Meg's
>    candidacy to be included rather than actually giving anyone the time
>    to reconsider running. Now, I understand there is an interest in
>    including more candidates with such a low turnout. However I do feel
>    that this was badly managed because *if* you are extending the
>    deadline, then this has to be about give people the time to
>    reconsider if they want to put in a candidacy. As it is now, it
>    feels to me like this was done to be able to consider Meg's
>    candidacy. The point here is that such a decision should *never* be
>    made in favour of a single candidate.
>  * Please keep the paragraphs intact on the list of candidates. Talking
>    about https://vote.gnome.org/2017/candidates.html
>  * I am unsure as to what the processes was in previous years, but I
>    think a few days for Q&A preceding the election period would make
>    sense. This is solely to encourage discussions before the voting
>    beings in the hope that people are a bit more informed for voting.
>
> Benjamin
>
> On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 10:42 +0000, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > Dear Benjamin Berg,
> >
> > The election of the GNOME Foundation Board is now open.
> >
> > Voting will run from May 26th until June 09th 2017, 23:59 UTC.
> >
> > To vote, please go to https://vote.gnome.org/vote.php?id=25
> > and follow the instructions there.
> >
> > A list of candidates and their reasons for running is available at
> > https://vote.gnome.org/2017/candidates.html
> >
> > When instructed to do so, enter the following details:
> >
> >    E-mail: benjamin sipsolutions net
> >    Vote token: b03a893fd45fe532818f010c
> >
> > The election has 4 steps - first, you must identify yourself using
> > the
> > voting token above. Then select your preferred candidates in order of
> > preference. A third step will show you your choice, and ask you to
> > confirm or return to the previous step. Finally, after confirming
> > your
> > choice, a unique identifier will be given to you which will allow you
> > to
> > verify after the election that your vote was counted correctly. To
> > ensure
> > anonymity, no link will be kept between this token and your
> > identifiers,
> > so please keep this token safe. Once you have voted, you will not be
> > able
> > to vote again.
> >
> > Thank you for your vote!
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Andrea Veri
> >   on behalf of the GNOME Membership and Elections Commitee
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-- 
Cheers,

Andrea

Red Hatter,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av