Re: Official Ballot for GNOME Foundation Elections

[Raph Levien <raph levien com>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:04:04PM -0500, GNOME Foundation Elections wrote:
> This is your official ballot for the 2001 GNOME Foundation Board of
> Directors election.
> 
> As a reminder, more information about the candidates can be found at
> this URL:
> 
>   http://foundation.gnome.org/ballot-summary.html
> 
> Information about the GNOME Foundation is here:
> 
>   http://foundation.gnome.org
> 
> Also, general discussion of the candidates can be found in the October
> and November 2001 archives of foundation-list at:
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list
> 
> Please take the time to learn about the candidates and their expected
> actions as members of the GNOME Foundation Board.
> 
> You may vote for up to 11 different candidates. The 11 candidates with
> the most total votes will become the new board, except that no more
> than four candidates affiliated with the same corporation can be
> elected.  If more than four of the top eleven vote-getters share a
> corporate affiliation, only the four with the most votes will be
> elected.  Votes must be received by 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST on Tuesday,
> November 27, 2001.
> 
> At the end of the voting period, all votes will be posted publicly
> for verification; this is NOT a secret ballot. At that time, please
> verify that your vote was received and counted and alert
> elections gnome org if it was not.
> 
> Concerns or questions about the voting process should be sent to
> elections gnome org  Results will be announced as soon as possible
> after voting closes.
> 
> To vote, send an email to vote gnome org (you can just reply to this
> mail). The first two lines in the email should be the following two
> personalized authentication lines, unmodified:
> 
> Member Address: raph acm org
> Validation Token: 5dbd743431833e4a6bf8c22d2369e3da
> 
> These two lines allow us to verify that you are a foundation member
> and that your email came from you.
> 
> The remainder of your email should name up to 11 candidates you wish
> to vote for. The order of the names is not relevant. Please include
> both the name and ID number of each candidate exactly as they appear
> below, one candidate per line. Try not to include any text in your
> email other than the two authentication lines followed by the
> candidates you're voting for.
> 
> Again, your authentication lines are:
> 
> Member Address: raph acm org
> Validation Token: 5dbd743431833e4a6bf8c22d2369e3da
> 
> The candidates are:
> 
> JONATHAN BLANDFORD (ID# 1)
> CHEMA CELORIO (ID# 2)
> GLYNN FOSTER (ID# 5)
> JIM GETTYS (ID# 7)
> JODY GOLDBERG (ID# 8)
> TELSA GWYNNE (ID# 9)
> BILL HANEMAN (ID# 10)
> JAMES HENSTRIDGE (ID# 11)
> GEORGE LEBL (ID# 12)
> IAN MCKELLAR (ID# 14)
> JEFF WAUGH (ID# 25)
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to vote!