Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2020
Andrea Veri <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2020 14:55:46 +0200
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--===============7121524513641578775== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000094fcae05a6b4d990" --00000000000094fcae05a6b4d990 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Membership, seems I missed providing you the list of current Directors that will be continuing serving on the Board and the ones which seat is up for renewal instead. Quoting Philip Chimento himself: """" We decided that the directors who received the most votes (in the order they were elected in the runoff) in the 2019 election would continue. These were Carlos, Federico, and Allan. Carlos indicated he was unable to commit to another year, so the next runner-up was me. Continuing: Federico, Allan, and Philip Seats up for reelection: Carlos, Rob, Britt and Tristan """" The deadline for submitting candidacies is tomorrow, please send your one in if you're willing to run for this year's elections :-) Thanks, Il giorno lun 18 mag 2020 alle ore 15:17 Andrea Veri <[email protected]> ha scritto: > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to > announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2020. > > The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: > > *GNOME Board Elections 2020* > 2020-05-18: List of candidates opens. > 2020-05-29: Last day to announce candidacies, submit > summary statements. > 2020-05-30: Final list of candidates. > 2020-06-01: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting > begins. > 2020-06-14: Voting closes. > 2020-06-15: Preliminary results are announced. > 2020-06-22: Last day to challenge preliminary results. > > ELECTIONS > ========= > > Four of the seven members of our current Board of Directors have been > ruling GNOME for 12 months now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have > to elect what will be the Board of Directors for the next year. > > Why elections are going to renew four out of seven seats this year? Please > read below under the VOTING session. > > > CANDIDACY > ========= > > If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME > Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to > [email protected] with your full name, e-mail, corporate > affiliation (if any), and your reasons for wanting to serve as a director. > > Candidacies must be announced prior to 2020-05-29, 23:59 UTC. > > All discussion related to the elections should be held on > foundation-list. Members are invited to ask questions to one or all > candidates on that list (see below). > > A list of candidates will be announced on 2020-05-30. > > At this point, you are invited to ask the candidates questions via > Discourse at: > > https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336 > > These candidates might become your representative, so do not hesitate to > ask them questions. > > Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have > already asked. Also, bear in mind that the candidates invest a lot of > time answering questions, so please be reasonable with the amount and > scope of the questions. > > > ELECTORATE > ========== > > Every GNOME Foundation member whose membership is valid as of > 2020-05-30 is eligible to vote in the elections. Please note that > Emeritus members won't have voting rights. More details about what > Emeritus members can and can't do are available at > > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers. > > If you are not a member yet, please consider applying for membership > as soon as possible at > > https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply > > Late applications will most likely not be processed in time. > > The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee do inform members > they need to renew by mailing them once a month both on their personal > e-mail and on the foundation-list mailing list. We recommend that members > to also double check this to avoid a missed opportunity to vote. Please > verify that the email address that is associated with your GNOME Foundation > membership is valid and that you are able to read emails sent to this > address. With the introduction of https://account.gnome.org verifying > this information is now possible by just logging in with your GNOME > Account. Your password can be reset with the following command: > > ssh -l gnome_userid account.gnome.org > > A new password will be e-mailed directly to the registered e-mail for > your account. In case the above solution won't work or you don't know > what your username is please get in touch with the GNOME Accounts Team at > [email protected]. > > You can verify your membership status by visiting > https://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php and looking for your > name, surname on the list of members. You can also verify your last renewal > date by highlighting your name, surname with your mouse and waiting a > little second for the date to appear correctly. > > > VOTING > ====== > > The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by > 2020-06-01 via email. > > This specific election run is the first one occurring after the following > amendments were introduced to the Foundation's Bylaws. The aforementioned > changes introduced the ability to only renew a subset of the available > seats of the Board. The rationale of the changes and the historical > information about these specific amendments can be found here: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-July/msg00007.html > > The 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 sitting on the Board as Directors during > the same term. This holds true even in the case a subset of seats is up for > renewal: as an example if X is affiliated with the Example Inc. and his/her > seat is not up for renewal, the amount of possible candidates affiliated > with Example Inc. that may be elected would be 1 (one). On top of that and > as taken from the Foundation's Bylaws: "8.2.4: In the event that any > election of directors results in a single entity representing greater than > 40% of the Board, than the nominee representing that entity receiving the > least number of votes, shall be replaced by the nominee receiving the > greatest number of votes who was not elected to the Board." For a full > definition of corporate affiliation, see the GNOME Foundation charter at: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter > > In the event of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections > Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible. > > --- > > More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and the > voting process can be found here: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee > https://vote.gnome.org > > -- > 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: https://www.gnome.org/~av > -- 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: https://www.gnome.org/~av --00000000000094fcae05a6b4d990 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Membership,<div><br></div><div>seems I missed providing yo= u the list of current Directors that will be continuing serving on the Boar= d and the ones which seat is up for renewal instead.</div><div><br></div><d= iv>Quoting Philip Chimento himself:</div><div><br></div><div>""&q= uot;"</div>We decided that the directors who received the most votes (= in the order they were elected in the runoff) in the 2019 election would co= ntinue. These were Carlos, Federico, and Allan. Carlos indicated he was una= ble to commit to another year, so the next runner-up was me.<br><br>Continu= ing: Federico, Allan, and Philip<br>Seats up for reelection: Carlos, Rob, B= ritt and Tristan<div>""""</div><div><br></div><div>The = deadline for submitting candidacies is tomorrow, please send your one in if= you're willing to run for this year's elections :-)</div><div><br>= </div><div>Thanks,</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"lt= r" class=3D"gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 18 mag 2020 alle ore 15:17 Andrea Ver= i <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> ha scritto:<br><= /div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;bo= rder-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><di= v style=3D"text-align:left">The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections C= ommittee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Di= rectors in Spring 2020.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div = style=3D"text-align:left">The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timelin= e are the following:</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div sty= le=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 *GNOME Board Elections 2020*</div><d= iv style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 2020-05-18: List of candidates opens.</div><div style=3D"text-al= ign:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2020-05-2= 9: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements.</div><div s= tyle=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 2020-05-30: Final list of candidates.</div><div style=3D"text-align:= left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2020-06-01: I= nstructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins.</div><div style=3D"te= xt-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2020= -06-14: Voting closes.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2020-06-15: Preliminary results a= re announced.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 2020-06-22: Last day to challenge prelimina= ry results.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"tex= t-align:left">ELECTIONS</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"te= xt-align:left">Four of the seven members of our current Board of Directors = have been ruling GNOME for 12 months now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members,= will have to elect what will be the Board of Directors for the next year.<= /div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left= ">Why elections are going to renew four out of seven seats this year? Pleas= e read below under the VOTING session.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">= <br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align= :left">CANDIDACY</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-ali= gn:left">If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME</di= v><div style=3D"text-align:left">Foundation Board of Directors, then send a= n email to</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"mailto:foundation= [email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a> wi= th your full name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and your reasons= for wanting to serve as a director.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><b= r></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Candidacies must be announced prior = to 2020-05-29, 23:59 UTC.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><di= v style=3D"text-align:left">All discussion related to the elections should = be held on</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">foundation-list. Members are= invited to ask questions to one or all</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"= >candidates on that list (see below).</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><= br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">A list of candidates will be announ= ced on 2020-05-30.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style= =3D"text-align:left">At this point, you are invited to ask the candidates q= uestions via Discourse at:</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><d= iv style=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"https://discourse.gnome.org/c/commu= nity/elections-and-referendums/336" target=3D"_blank">https://discourse.gno= me.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336</a></div><div style=3D"tex= t-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">These candidates mig= ht become your representative, so do not hesitate to ask them questions.</d= iv><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">= Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have</div><div s= tyle=3D"text-align:left">already asked. Also, bear in mind that the candida= tes invest a lot of</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">time answering ques= tions, so please be reasonable with the amount and scope of the questions.<= /div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left= "><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">ELECTORATE</div><div style=3D"te= xt-align:left">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D</div><div style=3D"text-align= :left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Every GNOME Foundation memb= er whose membership is valid as of</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">2020= -05-30 is eligible to vote in the elections. Please note that</div><div sty= le=3D"text-align:left">Emeritus members won't have voting rights. More = details about what</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Emeritus members can= and can't do are available at</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br>= </div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"https://wiki.gnome.org/Memb= ershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers" target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.gnome.org/M= embershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers</a>.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"= ><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">If you are not a member yet, plea= se consider applying for membership</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">as = soon as possible at</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div styl= e=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membershi= p/apply" target=3D"_blank">https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/appl= y</a></div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-alig= n:left">Late applications will most likely not be processed in time.</div><= div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">The = GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee do inform members they = need to renew by mailing them once a month both on their personal e-mail an= d on the foundation-list mailing list. We recommend that members to also do= uble check this to avoid a missed opportunity to vote. Please verify that t= he email address that is associated with your GNOME Foundation membership i= s valid and that you are able to read emails sent to this address. With the= introduction of <a href=3D"https://account.gnome.org" target=3D"_blank">ht= tps://account.gnome.org</a> verifying this information is now possible by j= ust logging in with your GNOME Account. Your password can be reset with the= following command:</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div styl= e=3D"text-align:left">ssh -l gnome_userid <a href=3D"http://account.gnome.o= rg" target=3D"_blank">account.gnome.org</a></div><div style=3D"text-align:l= eft"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">A new password will be e-mail= ed directly to the registered e-mail for</div><div style=3D"text-align:left= ">your account. In case the above solution won't work or you don't = know</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">what your username is please get i= n touch with the GNOME Accounts Team at <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]= g" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>.</div><div style=3D"text-align:= left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">You can verify your membersh= ip status by visiting</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"https:= //foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php" target=3D"_blank">https://fo= undation.gnome.org/membership/members.php</a> and looking for your name, su= rname on the list of members. You can also verify your last renewal date by= highlighting your name, surname with your mouse and waiting a little secon= d for the date to appear correctly.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br= ></div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:le= ft">VOTING</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D</div><div= style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">The Ele= ctorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by</div><div styl= e=3D"text-align:left">2020-06-01 via email.</div><div style=3D"text-align:l= eft"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">This specific election run is= the first one occurring after the following</div><div style=3D"text-align:= left">amendments were introduced to the Foundation's Bylaws. The aforem= entioned changes introduced the ability to only renew a subset of the avail= able seats of the Board. The rationale of the changes and the historical in= formation about these specific amendments can be found here:</div><div styl= e=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"h= ttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-July/msg00007.html"= target=3D"_blank">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019= -July/msg00007.html</a></div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div = style=3D"text-align:left">The candidates voted for most as counted by a sin= gle transferable vote system will be elected, except that no more than two = individuals affiliated with any one corporation may be sitting on the Board= as Directors during the same term. This holds true even in the case a subs= et of seats is up for renewal: as an example if X is affiliated with the Ex= ample Inc. and his/her seat is not up for renewal, the amount of possible c= andidates affiliated with Example Inc. that may be elected would be 1 (one)= . On top of that and as taken from the Foundation's Bylaws: "8.2.4= : In the event that any election of directors results in a single entity re= presenting greater than 40% of the Board, than the nominee representing tha= t entity receiving the least number of votes, shall be replaced by the nomi= nee receiving the greatest number of votes who was not elected to the Board= ." For a full definition of corporate affiliation, see the GNOME Found= ation charter at:</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style= =3D"text-align:left"><a href=3D"https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter" = target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter</a></div><div s= tyle=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">In the ev= ent of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections</div><div style= =3D"text-align:left">Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as p= ossible.</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-a= lign:left">---</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"= text-align:left">More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Com= mittee and the voting process can be found here:</div><div style=3D"text-al= ign:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 <a href=3D"https:= //wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee" target=3D"_blank">https://wiki.gnome.= org/MembershipCommittee</a></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">=C2=A0 <a h= ref=3D"https://vote.gnome.org" target=3D"_blank">https://vote.gnome.org</a>= </div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:lef= t">--=C2=A0</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Cheers,</div><div style=3D"= text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Andrea</div><div = style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Red Hatt= er,</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">Fedora / EPEL packager,</div><div s= tyle=3D"text-align:left">GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,</div><div s= tyle=3D"text-align:left">Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secreta= ry,</div><div style=3D"text-align:left">GNOME Foundation Membership & E= lections Committee Chairman</div><div style=3D"text-align:left"><br></div><= div style=3D"text-align:left">Homepage: <a href=3D"https://www.gnome.org/~a= v" target=3D"_blank">https://www.gnome.org/~av</a></div></div> </blockquote></div><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr"= class=3D"gmail_signature">Cheers,<br><br>Andrea<br><br>Red Hatter,<br>Fedo= ra / EPEL packager,<br>GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,<br>Former GNO= ME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,<br>GNOME Foundation Membership = & Elections Committee Chairman<br><br>Homepage: <a href=3D"https://www.= gnome.org/~av" target=3D"_blank">https://www.gnome.org/~av</a></div> --00000000000094fcae05a6b4d990-- --===============7121524513641578775== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce --===============7121524513641578775==--